European Elections

Categories: politics

Date: 04 June 2009 18:45:14

Well, I trotted off to the church hall/polling station to exercise my democratic right and vote.

We certainly had a choice of parties: not only were the usual suspects represented, and a fair smattering of Cloud Cuckoo Land parties, I found that I could also vote for a specifically Cornish party (that says party - not pasty). Our consistuency stretches from Gloucestershire in the north to Cornwall in the south. And rather bizarrely, it also includes Gibraltar. Yes, that's the one, just to the south of Spain. It's deceptively close to Land's End, just board a ship and sail through sea areas Lundy (or Plymouth, depending on which coast you start from) and take a more or less southerly route through Sole, Biscay, FitzRoy and Trafalgar turn East at the bottom of Spain (having ignored France and Portugal) and then you're on your own for a few miles before you find landfall at Gibraltar. I expect the good citizens of the Rock feel particularly well represented by being lumped in with us. We're only about 1,000 km away.

I read through all the candidates' blurb that came through the door. I was interested to note that only one saw fit to mention his foreign language skills (French and German).  If I ever find out the results I'll let you know who my new representative is.