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You know, to control the otherwise inevitable onslaught of threads about Finnish election and how confusing ballot(???) caused some people in Kymi to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan.
We'll start to get results in about a hour from now. I voted for the lone Liberal candidate here in Pohjois-Karjala - I don't know anything about him except that he's 18 years old and looks geeky but hey, at least my vote's not going for Tony Halme. Besides, I couldn't really bring myself to vote for any other party. I considered Coalition, since they had a some good candidates, but as long as they keep Ville "A bombing! A bombing! This presents an opportunity to blame the Internet!" Itälä as the party leader, they deserve to lose.
I'm a pessimist, so I fear that the result is that Centre wins big and we return to the wonderlands of red earth government and Centre's area policy (taking the money out of cities and trucking it to a big black hole in the midst of Savo, that is). And we'll continue to keep Tuomioja as the foreign minister. And Tony Halme gets in the parliament. (Remember, foreign folks, this official site of Halme campaign only conveys about 33% of his ridiculousness to you, since you can't read Finnish.) Oh well.
We'll start to get results in about a hour from now. I voted for the lone Liberal candidate here in Pohjois-Karjala - I don't know anything about him except that he's 18 years old and looks geeky but hey, at least my vote's not going for Tony Halme. Besides, I couldn't really bring myself to vote for any other party. I considered Coalition, since they had a some good candidates, but as long as they keep Ville "A bombing! A bombing! This presents an opportunity to blame the Internet!" Itälä as the party leader, they deserve to lose.
I'm a pessimist, so I fear that the result is that Centre wins big and we return to the wonderlands of red earth government and Centre's area policy (taking the money out of cities and trucking it to a big black hole in the midst of Savo, that is). And we'll continue to keep Tuomioja as the foreign minister. And Tony Halme gets in the parliament. (Remember, foreign folks, this official site of Halme campaign only conveys about 33% of his ridiculousness to you, since you can't read Finnish.) Oh well.
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