MAY 5th-General Election

I hope you're all voting today! If you're reading this on the day I wrote it and you haven't...

GO VOTE!

If you are reading this afterwards and you haven't voted...

SHAME ON YOU!

This is your democratic right! Not only is this YOUR say in the way this country is run but (and I'm not going to overstress this point) but this is one of the reasons people have died in wars for our country.

Now, I'm not an imperialist as you know but there is something to be said for pride in one's country. I for one wouldn't live anywhere else in the world (except maybe Egypt, but read my other blog for that :) ). Now, there is a sense of pride in my chest when I think of the British Empire (largest empire on the planet, the sun never set on it and so on). Men fought in both world wars 'For King and Country'.

Yet many people cannot be bothered to take part in democratic process which (despite past imperial tendancies) we have kept. Why? I can only assume because we're British!

I'm no qualified social theorist as you know but I like to think that today, we show Tony Blair that things are going to change around here. The swing to left politics will no doubt be prominent in this election.

Tony Blair-Has attempted to walk over the Britsih public in his last term as Prime Minister. Despite mass public protest, protest in the house of commons, from the attorney General and his OWN party he went to war. Now, at the time, having done all that I was still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.

My exact words were

"He must know something we don't."

I assumed he had some secret dossier which (for reasons of nationals security he couldn't reveal but) meant we had to go to war. Of course, I, like Tony Blair and George W Bush was proved wrong.

Michael Howard-His own press is bad enough without me. Let's just remind people that when he was Home Secretary the Poll Tax was introduced. Now he claims he can lower taxes. Pah.

Now, I can appreciate that people may be dissolusioned by politics as the candidates may seem power-hungry liars and I would respect anyone stance on that. But do something! You have to do something and the election IS that something!

Apathy is like being dead.