Can we count on your vote?

摘要

Last night I dreamt I was at a crit held in the format of a televised election debate. There were six candidate-students and they were each wearing enormous coloured ties: blue, red, orange, purple, yellow and green respectively. They were very insistent on showing me and my co-critics their projects and asked that after the crit we vote which we like best. After a little scuffle for attention, a confident, blue-tied student addressed the room. Blue began their presentation by talking over a series of boring photos of people doing things seemingly unrelated to their project's context which they authoritatively explained represented a world where few can afford houses and the country's less affluent all live in cars issued by state-subsidised Automa-house Associations. The student's proposal was therefore to convert a series of motorway service stations into franchised drive-thru human services that offer cheap, on demand education, healthcare and childcare, seven days a week, 30 hours a week. The critics contested the out-of-town locations of these service stations but Blue retorted that broadband provision would be near-universal so not to worry and that the services would be surrounded with mature trees to minimise their impact on views of the British countryside for people that live in houses.