Dentist, Blunkett

[armb]

Went to the dentist this morning after a night of toothache. Wisdom tooth could come out, but they are going to leave it for now. Stocked up on paracetamol and ibuprofen.
And Blunkett has resigned. Shame it wasn't because he had to admit the ID card was a bad idea.

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[armb.livejournal.com]

I think both Blair and Blunkett are liars, and very likely Blunkett was told to resign.
But if he actually meant "Blunkett will be my Home Secretary, except if it turns out he was lying about having not anything to do with the visa application, but he has my full confidence and I don't think that's a possibility worth even mentioning", which in principle he could have been, that would be misguided but not lying. (Not like saying we know for a definite fact that Iraq has weapons of mass distruction that can be readied in 45 minutes when you actually mean a single unconfirmed source tells us that Iraq has short-range battlefield weapons that can be readied in 45 minutes.)
I suspect that a LibDem party that had good chances of achieving power would have a smaller proportion of decent people in it (either because it would attract more of the wrong sort of person, or because it wouldn't reach power without changing), and there are decent Labour and Tory politicians too, but on the whole the LibDems seem to be the least bad option for now. At least some forms of proportional representation would allow you to vote for the candidates you prefer from a mixture of parties (so you could say "I'd prefer that Labour candidate to either of the Tories, but prefer the Tories to that other Labour candidate"). There's a limit to how much that difference that will make when the candidates are all following the party line, and it isn't possible with all systems (the party list system used for EU elections, for example), but I think it's a good thing in principle.