By Slanted Light

In that case I totally have to -wait, do I "pimp" on LJ?! - "Northern Exposure" to you. The first two seasons are out now on dvd, with the 3rd coming soon, and there've been various eps on vid for a while too. It's about a New York dr who is forced to go and live in a quirky little community in rural rural Alaska, and its brilliant. Very funny, and full of bits to make you think. Plus the lovely John Corbett all young and skinny as the dj Chris-in-the-morning. 'course it depends what you like (!) but I highly recommend it. If you'd like a copy I could get one to you - drop me an email!

*****That's very kind of you, but I think I'm really a one-fandom person and I don't give *that* fandom enough time, but thank you so much for the offer.

Yeah, I can see that people in Brit couldn't be bothered with prop rep. But I'm also not sure that's really an excuse if it is a fairer system. I have to say I'd far rather have had to suss out 25 candidates on a paper than have had Thatcher back for her last term...

****I agree, from my point of view, but judging humankind by all the people I've known, i.e. from my own personal experience, which is really the only method I can judge people by, a long list of candidates would be totally irrelevant as they don't even bother to read the bits of political election pamphlets we get through the door now, let alone if they're was even more information to disseminate. I really think most people in the UK just aren't that political. If they're warm, have a roof over their heads and low taxes that's all they seem to care about. Fair enough, I suppose.
Mind you, although my family are Scots, my main experience is with Londoners who are a breed apart. Maybe the rest of the UK is more political, but going by the post election breakdown in voting results and patterns of voting I don't think the rest of the country is that politically active either. Again, I don't blame them. It's hard enough just getting through the normal rigours of a working week without having to go out and be political active as well. Ba boom...