Disgruntled Voter or What You Will
Well, it's the day before those oh-so-important local elections the press keep banging on about, only you wouldn't know it where I live as not one of my available candidates has even thought fit to shove a badly written leaflet through my door with a cheesy photo on it.
To find out who my local candidates are I would have to go to the end of my road to where there is a lamppost hung with those silly posters, write down their names and then Google them. And normally I would too. But, you know what? Fuck it all.
I mean,
This is the pit of hell into which my vote will be cast.
And this is how I feel about Clark and his mess.
And when I think of Prescott I now think of this, except he's more "man of the people, turned politician."
Patricia Hewitt. This.
And they want to make voting compulsory? Yeah, you first.
To them all, I wanna say this.
You make me wanna .....
You're all getting my vote tomorrow. A ballot paper with just one big X.
4 comments:
We don't get to vote in my area for a while yet. Can't be bothered to do the five minutes of googling to find out the actual date.
Suffice to say that Labour won't be getting my vote. Even if it does let the Tories in.
I'm beyond the point of caring. In fact, I've given serious consideration to simply ignoring politics until the revolution comes. Or they get round to bringing in PR at least
Thanks for linking. Though your selection does reveal that I like to steal all my good ideals from Chris Dillow. :)
My, you were up early this morning!
Sorry, I hadn't noticed the Chris Dallow thing. No reflection on your own work obviously, which is never anything less than top banana.
And yes. Revolution. Now.
We take our so-called 'democracy' for granted don't we all?
I feel so sad when I see newsfilm of people queued in bad weather after walking miles and risking attacks in order to vote in some third world 'new democracy' ... because of course, so long as we have a 2-party system, it cannot be democratic when their allegiance is to the party instead of to their electorate.
We need lotsa Independant people standing for election and prohibited from aligning with others for forced votes; and campaign funds strictly limited to handbills and handshaking.
You know, that's what the problem is in this area, there are no independants - someone with a good CV and some savvy who lives locally and cares about issues such a housing develpoment of 1000 homes being squeezed on a patch of grass.
It didn't much feel like democracy, but i went along and voted anyhow. I'm like you Brownie, I think of the people who have risked their lives to vote, and I can never not vote. I had every intention of spoiling my paper, but as my pencil (SHIT. Thinking about it, shouldn't it have been a pen they supplied?) hovered above the piece of paper it ended up making an X next to the Labour candidate. I feel slightly agitated and very annoyed that I felt the need to do that and will have to closely examine my motives when I'm sober.
Whoever gets elected tonight I'm going to be on their ass all year.
(The BNP put a candidate up in my area, which leaves me feeling slightly sickly. Can't think that they stand a chance.)
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