Boring election chat

A general election has been called.
This is exciting.
I like elections.
I am a news junkie but sometimes find BBC News channel a little dull and very repetitive when there is not much going on in the world. Luckily during an election campaign there should always be something for them to report on, even if it is David Cameron saying offering change in a slightly different location to the previous day.

Becky and I have booked the day after the election off so we can stay up all right and watch the results roll in.
I think those of you who have been reading me for any amount of time can probably work out which way my allegiances are probably going to swing this time, but I still haven’t 100% made my mind up. Try about 99%.

I get very frustrated with the way some people vote though. People who always vote for the same party no matter what annoy me. Surely someone in their 50s who has voted Labour all their life can see that the party today is nothing like the party of the 1980s. What precisely are they voting for? They voted for nationalisation, nuclear disarmament and tax & spend in the 1980s and are now voting for privatisation, Trident and austerity.

Just because you have voted for a party all you life doesn’t mean that you always have to. In the end people like that are probably just voting for the party’s name. Or maybe the colour.

I guess just as bad are people who vow that they will never vote for a political party on principal. Oh, I could never vote Tory after what Thatcher did to the miners. Political parties can change. Remember that in the USA the Democrats were the party of segregation and slavery before becoming what they are today.

Everyone should really check out the partys’ manifestos and vote for whomever they agree the most with or maybe whoever they trust the most.

Simples.






These are my own personal views and not those of the BBC.
If any offence is taken to the above I assure you that the offending comments are ironic.