March 6 AV ‘will mean odder politicians’

Frank Doughty, newly elected Member of Parliament under the alternately vicious agreement lined up three bullets in front of me.

'pick one, you have a complete free choice'

He, like many of the new breed, have a reputation for playing games, bamboozling with so much contradictory yet important sounding information that by the time you leave you've forgotten why you were sent in the first place. My hand went left and then conspicuously to the one in the centre, finding my way into the rules of the game.

'I have to say, before you make your final decision: one of the bullets has a name on it, underneath, where you can't see' he turned his hand upwards to demonstrate,

'and if you pick that one, someone will be shot'

The background noise disappeared and all I could hear was two heartbeats, his much slower than my own.

Whilst eating another spoon of ice cream I studied the scene; the new pro risk taking democratic manifesto dictated a way out of any situation deemed perilous or unfair.

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That evening I waited to see if the bullets would pass through without any trouble, hoping I'd picked right.