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TY Stephen for the quotes.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
-- De La Lastra's Law

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
-- Noelie Altito

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
-- Elbert Hubbard

" Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. "
I doubt that Mr Cohen was talking about Britain's new " accidental " coalition government, but it's what sprang to my mind when I read this quote...
" Previously on British Politics..." The last British General election rather surprised everybody. The incumbent Labour government not only lost the election, ( As was widely suspected they might. ), but lost the election so much that they could not have achieved a majority in Parliament even had they gone into coalition with the Liberal Democrats. However, the opposition Conservative party failed to win enough seats to achieve a majority in Parliament by themselves, so they couldn't form a credible government either, So, much to the dismay of many Liberal Democrat voters, ( Me included! ), the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats ended up in coalition with each other. So, everyone's happy. ( Except large groups of Liberal Democrat voters who feel idealogically uncomfortable with many Conservative policies, and large groups of Conservative voters who are unhappy about the Government being " led astray " by those " wishy-washy " Lib Dems!!!! )
If this is what " winning " feels like, I'm not sure that I didn't prefer it when the Lib Dems lost? )

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