Dawn of the Brain Dead.

If I were the sort to wilfully murder the English language by acknowledging the legitimacy of the verb ‘to trend’ I should be inclined to report that there’s a strange video currently trending on YouTube. Since I’m not, would you please pretend that this post is being written by somebody else? Thank you.

What this other person finds strange about the video is that it’s called ‘What’s the choice in this election?’ and is a pep talk given by Martin Freeman (of Sherlock and Hobbit fame) on behalf of the British Labour Party. It’s had 22,900 views already, apparently.

What’s strange about it is that anybody with at least one functioning brain cell is capable of working out for themselves that the Labour Party has no notable history of nastiness, unlike the Tory Party which has always considered nastiness (at least to the lower social orders) to be a matter for celebration. To put it another way, nobody with even half an ounce of common sense needs to have their voting intentions influenced by a celebrity. So who, I wonder, are the 22,900?