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May. 1st, 2008 09:19 amRight, so, today I am not voting. This is because I live in Scotland and therefore cannot, as we had ours last year.
Anyway. The general point here is that if you are old enough, you should vote. You might think "Oh, well, council elections, who cares?" and the answer is WELL BLOODY EVERYONE. Council tax, bins, schools and nursing homes may not seem particularly sexy compared to all the fun stuff Parliament gets to play with, but it's important.
I won't tell you who to vote for.Unless you live in Lancashire, as this means you should vote Labour because that's my uncle's job. But I will point out that you shouldn't take the relative competencies of the Westminster bunch as an example. I hate the 10p tax thingy as much as you do. Probably more. That doesn't reflect on the actions of the lowly councillors who are almost always Good People.
But seriously. Vote. It's important.
AND IF YOU LIVE IN LONDON then please, for the love of sweet buggary fuck, don't vote for Boris Johnson. I cannot emphasise this enough. Seriously. The only options worse there are the BNP and UKIP. Even then I'm not 100% sure about UKIP. YOU SEE MY SAXON ICON? SEE WHAT HAPPENED THERE? Besides, THINK OF IT THIS WAY: Johnson doesn't get elected, he can go back to being a comedy MP that hosts Have I Got News For You occasionally. I can deal with that. Not the idea of him as the real political figure though. Oh, god.
Anyway. The general point here is that if you are old enough, you should vote. You might think "Oh, well, council elections, who cares?" and the answer is WELL BLOODY EVERYONE. Council tax, bins, schools and nursing homes may not seem particularly sexy compared to all the fun stuff Parliament gets to play with, but it's important.
I won't tell you who to vote for.
But seriously. Vote. It's important.
AND IF YOU LIVE IN LONDON then please, for the love of sweet buggary fuck, don't vote for Boris Johnson. I cannot emphasise this enough. Seriously. The only options worse there are the BNP and UKIP. Even then I'm not 100% sure about UKIP. YOU SEE MY SAXON ICON? SEE WHAT HAPPENED THERE? Besides, THINK OF IT THIS WAY: Johnson doesn't get elected, he can go back to being a comedy MP that hosts Have I Got News For You occasionally. I can deal with that. Not the idea of him as the real political figure though. Oh, god.
