British turkeys vote for Christmas (with more stuffing, please)

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

The saddest thing about yesterday’s local elections, and that for London Mayor, is that most people voted, somewhat predictably, from an utterly myopic perspective we could term the Dodo Mentality. Did people vote against Labour on the basis of how the party has eroded our civil liberties? No. Phoney war on terror? No. Licking Dubya’s arse? No. Attacking and occupying Iraq? No.

They voted against Labour only for the things that it is arguable Labour can’t be solely blamed for, if at all: the credit crunch, the food crisis pushing up the price of basic foodstuffs, the unaffordability and current unavailability of mortgages. I have many reasons not to vote Labour. Most of them are in the first paragraph above; none are in this one.

Dumb, dumb, and dumb. And now those of us who dislike Labour these days for rational, intelligent, considered reasons are faced with a dilemma: do we vote for the party at the General Election, to keep the Tories out, or do we go with our convictions and either vote for minority parties or not vote at all, and then watch the Tories get elected by the masses whose only conviction is that they want more of their money to spend, for everything to cost less, and to hell with the future of the planet and the human race?

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