A Son of the Rock

Among the leaflets we received was one from the No To EU party.

At least I think it’s from the No To EU party.

What the leaflet actually says is no²eu – all in lower case! – which I read as no squared, eu; or perhaps n, o squared, eu. Of these, I only recognise N as an SI unit. (Even then it would have to be a capital letter.) The remainder are gibberish.

I suppose it’s meant to be text-speak (no2eu) – which is a less than serious way to communicate with voters I’d have thought – but this mob can’t even get this right as the 2 is superscripted, thereby becoming the mathematical symbol not for the number two but instead the indication that the preceding symbol is to be multiplied by itself (squared.)

So, mathematically, we have no x no x eu, or n x o x o x eu which (expanded) become n x o x n x o x e x u and n x o x o x e x u.

What a glorious example of shooting yourself in the foot. I didn’t bother reading the rest. If they’re not prepared to engage with me as a literate and numerate adult I’m not going to treat them with respect either. I’ll just take the piss.

They do, however, give the lie to Nigel Farrage (whose surname is only its final vowel away from an apt description of the man) of UKIP who said in their PPB that UKIP was the only party standing for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. Well, what do you expect from someone who looks and sounds like a sinister double-glazing salesman?

The Labour and SNP leaflets barely mentioned the EU at all, the Tories only to bash it in derogatory language. The Lib Dem leaflet was the only one that came anywhere near a programme for engagement with the EU.

There was nothing from the Greens. That’s my vote sorted then.