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1、關于英國大選的五件事FivethingstoknowabouttheBritishelectionVeryoccasionallyinpoliticsthingsturnouttobeastheyseem.ThismayprovetrueofBritain’selectioncampaign.Theplayersarewaitinganxiouslyforsomethingtohappen—forthetidetobreakrightforDavidCameron’sConservativesorleftforEdMiliband’sLabour.Thevotersarelookinge
2、vermorestubborninadeterminationnottoconfergoverningauthorityoneitheroftheUK’stwobigparties.在政治領域,事情的結局很少有跟像表面上看一樣的。英國議會大選的競選或許也會如此。參選者焦急地等待著某些事情的發(fā)生:潮流是會向右,使戴維?卡梅倫(DavidCameron)的保守黨(Conservatives)得勢?還是會向左,令埃德?米利班德(EdMiliband)的工黨(Labour)占優(yōu)?英國選民似乎比以往更加固執(zhí),決心不給予英國兩大政黨中任何一方以絕對的統(tǒng)治權威。Thereisstilltimeenou
3、ghforwhatDonaldRumsfeldfamouslycalledunknownunknownstodisturbtheground,butthecementishardening.TheballotpaperforMay7doesnotincludeaboxmarked“hungparliament”or“coalition”butthepolls,resolutelyflatformonths,suggeststalemateisthesettledchoiceofthenation.Icannotrecallwhenvoterslastshowedsuchstudiedin
4、differencetotheclamourandclatterofanelectioncampaign.唐納德?拉姆斯菲爾德(DonaldRumsfeld)口中“未知的未知數(shù)”仍有足夠時間去攪亂局面,但局面正在固化。5月7日投出的選票上,并不包含“懸浮議會”(hungparliament,即沒有一個政黨獲得議會多數(shù)席位——譯者注)或“聯(lián)合政府”的選項,但是民調(diào)結果(頑固地持續(xù)了數(shù)月未發(fā)生變化)顯示,勢均力敵注定成為這個國家面臨的局面。上一回選民對吵吵鬧鬧的競選故意表現(xiàn)得漠不關心至這等地步,我已經(jīng)記不起發(fā)生在何時了。Yettherehavebeensomethingstolearnfro
5、mthepastfewweeks.Thegoalofmodernpoliticalcampaigningistoshutoutrealpeoplewhileconveyingpreciselytheoppositeimpressiononthetelevisionnews.Everythingiscontrolledandchoreographed,withloyalactivistsdresseddownas“floatingvoters”.Andyet,forallthisprocessofsterilisation,somethingofthecharacteroftheplaye
6、rsfindsawaythrough.RememberHillaryClintonversusBarackObamainthe2008USpresidentialprimaries?不過,過去幾周還是可以看出些許端倪的?,F(xiàn)代政治競選的目標是把人們真實的一面隱藏起來,并在電視新聞中傳達出正好與之相反的形象。一切都是受到操縱、精心設計的,而忠實的積極分子們則假扮成“游離選民”(即并無堅決擁護的黨派的投票者——譯者注)??墒?,在所有這種殺菌凈化的過程中,參選者的某種人格總會自己暴露出來。還記得2008年美國總統(tǒng)初選時希拉里?克林頓(HillaryClinton)與巴拉克?奧巴馬(BarackO
7、bama)的對決嗎?Theadagehasitthatpoliticianscampaigninpoetryandgoverninprose.Well,thefirstthingtosayisthatMrCameronhasbeenhavingsometroublewithhisiambicpentameters.Steppingoutof10DowningStreet,helookseveryinchtheprimeministe