| I live in the arse end of nowhere, carrots as far as the eye can see. The local paper's weekly crime column consists of stuff like: four cans of lager stolen from Spar... traffic cone put on head of statue of St Noideawhoheis... I can leave my dive kit for days in the back of my pickup and it doesn't even get looked at... What is the local Labour candidate campaigning on? Increasing CCTV coverage. I feel so much more happy about the 8% council tax increase that the useless bunch of gits brought in this year.
I've been a card carrying SNP member since I was at school, unfortunately there aren't many SNP candidates in west Lancashire. I'd rather receive bum love from a chimp than vote for the most right wing government we've ever had i.e. Labour, Liberals are a bunch of ineffectual, indecisive ditherers and the Tories are just Labour with Daily Mail support.
If I wasn't so apathetic then I'd spoil my vote so it's going to have to be an abstention from me. If you're a single, childless, mid-30's, wage earning tax payer then no politician gives a toss. If you're a whiney middle-class BMW driving couple with brats in an oversubscribed grammar school then they want to be Father Christmas to you (it's not just the Tories who have a lot of old, bearded men who want to empty their sacks anymore).
OK, fair enough, Mao made a lot of mistakes but he was on to something when he started shooting politicians. Let's face it, we don't have democracy anymore so we might as well.
Happy voting.
Yours cynically,
Stuart
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