Poor Man About Town

5th May 2005

It’s election day! Blair has been zooming around the country getting increasingly tanned and attempting to look convincing and honourable. Likewise for Howard and Kennedy. Oh fuck! The triumvarate of power dominates. I was in a bit of a crisis as for whom I should vote. I thought “fuck it, give some minority party some support”. There was not much choice on the ballot paper – apart from Lab, Lib and Con, there were Christian Alliance (oh fuck off!), UKIP (let’s face it our future lies in Europe and the Europeans, get fucking real), and a far right candidate (if you want a shaved head rabble to rule the country, then vote for these gorillas) and the Greens. I voted Green.

The really laughable thing about the campaign in my area has been the New Labour Party blurb that they sent around. This is a proclamation of their political bankruptcy:

The Lib Dem are soft on crime. They failed to support the introduction of
anti-social behaviour orders and opppoesed fixed penalty notices for drunken
louts. They also want to end all jail sentences for drug possession and believe
teen criminals should never end up in court. How can they expect hard working
families to vote for them when they are constantly soft on crime…

I really like the last this statement, it’s as if New Labour has stolen Tory Party Literature on the Labour Party and made it their own vis-à-vis the Liberal democrats. Wankers!