patentdragon | David Davies - The Backlash Flounders (Reply)

In Today's Episode... And so we come to the penultimate chapter of "A Darkening Tide", and a particularly fearsome wave breaks over our heroine as the might of The Darkening answers her challenge...

Release Notes... Expect TDD-509: "A Crash Course In Betrayal" to start up within a week following the conclusion of "A Darkening Tide" - the latter follows on all but immediately from the former.

Development News... TDD-510 "Knight To King - Checkmate" advances, and should progress nicely now that events have reached such a crucial point. For some, the rest of the ride is distinctly downhill.

In the meantime, I think the prologue chapter for the next Mane-of-Night story (which actually won't feature our luxuriantly-tressed and glossy-booted heroine) will air in the TDD-509 - TDD-510 "intermission", and MoN-108 "A Spread Of Jacks And Queens" will follow TDD-510. After that, it's plain sailing to the finale of Darkhawk: Season Five...

Meanwhile... So, David Davies's resignation and by-election is "a stunt that's become a farce", eh, Mister Prime Minister? Yeah, you'd know all about farce, having doubled income tax for the people your party is supposed to represent, whilst accepting big bribes - oh sorry "donations" - from the rich and well-connected, arranging the "suicide" of those who cast doubt on the erasons behind your "foreign policy", paying off other parties so you can win your precious 42 day detention vote, bullshitting us that violent crime is down whilst teenagers' blood runs in the gutters - the Jane Longhurst Law... need I go on?

The best your lot can come up with, Mister Brown, is the "threat" that you'll not field a candidate, leaving the way clear for the ex-editor of a major "newspaper" to jump in a joke candidate to try and make a laughing stock of the whole by-election. Sorry, but democracy isn't your own personal plaything, which you can take home when the other boys and girls won't play the game your way.

The challenge is there, "Your Majesty" - now be a man and answer it. If David Davies is wrong, show us why - you owe it to the electorate you so plainly despise. You've been so quick to paint the man as "mad" and "unhinged", and none of your cronies can make any sense of what Davies has decided to do - but remember that it's Parliament that the rest of us, the voting public, see as the madhouse, and that decision clearly makes a heck of a lot of sense to a whole lot of "the great unwashed".

I shall continue observing this story until its conclusion, and beyond - anyone you thinks our freedoms are a laughing matter, namely the PM, needs a good kick in the teeth.

Arrived today... "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" and Phillip Pullman's "Once Upon A Time In The North". Still waiting on two DVDs...