As I left the dog on her own to go off to the polling station I explained what I was off to do, it went something like this –
“I’m going to do something strange, human and pointless.”
As a clip from a former election campaign was played it prayed on my mind – it was a brief quote from James Callaghan who famously lost to Margaret Thatcher in 1979 where he declared that we had to decide what kind of society we wanted. Now I was too young to vote then but I have been thinking about that idea over the last weeks.
Every party is happy with policies that hound and harass 20% of the population – alright they may be smokers but is that enough to drive them away from where they would mix with wider society and make up 40% of the population. So what kind of society is it that we are voting for?
The idea of another five years of Gordon Brown scares me, the idea of being sold down the swanny to the Superstate of Europe gives me the heeby-jeebies thank you Clegg but I still did not vote for Cameron. Or anyone else for that matter…
When the political consensus agrees that 300 odd folk can choose to persecute one fifth of the population and then stick to it – What kind of society can we vote for?
It is naive to think that voting once every four years for a different businessman is going to change anything.
That said, in this constituency it is between the lib dems and Tories. I do not want to wake up tomorrow to a Conservative government.
Well – if it won’t change anything why don’t you want a Conservative government? It shows how much you think it might matter…
Quite frankly I think we could manage without the whole heap of them but that’s just me…
I reckon we could, Free… but that’s presuming “them” are in control anyway…