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Date: 08 June 2009 16:21:34
When I walked into the polling booth on Thursday, I has a voting paper that was nearly three foot long, it was ridiculous.
Incidentally, UKIP, if you were worried about people not voting for you because they couldn’t find your name on the paper, you might want to think about getting some new supporters. Ones that don’t have to be followed around by someone murmuring “breathe in, breathe out,” in their ear lest they forget what to do.
I don’t like voting from a position of ignorance. I have, in the past, wasted acres of paper and gallons of ink printing out the manifestos of all the parties standing in my constituency in a general election, and then wasted hours of my life reading the wretched things. OK, in one case I then decided not to vote for someone because they couldn’t use “less” or “fewer” correctly, but then I never claimed to be normal. And how can I take your education policies seriously if you wantonly abuse poor innocent apostrophes?
So why, out of umpty-squillion candidates, did I only have three election leaflets through the door?
I can understand not being doorstepped, although I would just like to point out that it was one frozen fish, once, and I have been very careful not to answer the door with dead marine creatures in my hand ever since, but how can I vote for you if I don’t know what you stand for?
All those candidates, MPs and Euro MPs who are currently wringing their hands over the BNP now having two Euro MPs, excuse me, but where the hell were you when I was trying to decide who to vote for? The BNP put a leaflet through my door. I tore it into teeny pieces and put it in the recycling, but even so, out of all these candidates:
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Green Party
UK Independence Party
British National Party
Christian Party-Christian Peoples Alliance
Independent - Jan Jananayagam
English Democrat
No2EU
Socialist Labour Party
Libertas
Jury Team
Independent - Steven Cheung
Socialist Party of Great Britain
Yes 2 Europe
Independent - Sohale Rahman
Independent - Gene Alcantara
Independent - Haroon Saad
I had information for the three parties marked in bold, and that is pathetic. If you want me to vote for you, you have to tell me why I should vote for you. And use apostrophes properly, but that’s just me...
If we are to stop the BNP and their ilk, we need more than “don’t vote BNP because they’re evil,” because, true as it is, we need to offer a viable alternative as well.
Oh, and as for a turnout of 1,751,026 from an electorate of 5,257,624, words fail me. Thirty three percent?!? That is abysmal, and if I hear a single word about who got in out of anyone who didn’t vote, I will slap you silly. Turning out is counted, even if you only turn out in order to write “sod the lot of you” across the ballot paper. Sitting on your bum in front of Big Brother? Not so much. If you don’t vote, you can’t moan.