Disenfranchised?

So, here I am wondering who to vote for this time around.

I believe I mentioned before that I live in a Tory stronghold although I probably failed to mention it is THE safest Tory seat in the country (it was last I heard about it, might have changed recently but you get my point).

I moved into this area in 1986 and someone mentioned to me that John Major (I'd not heard of him) was not only my MP but had the safest seat in the land. In the following tory turbulent years this unheard of bloke became Foreign minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister! Anything to do with having a safe seat whilst Chris Patten and suck my Portillo had to defend tiny majorities?

Anyway, back in 1992, pissed off with the tories, hating labour and laughing at the lib dems (a prime example of an oxymoron), I voted for Lord Sutch (having a PM as your mp is fantastic, there were a good dozen weirdos to vote for that year)

1997. I voted for James Goldsmith and his referendum party since I believed, and still do, that this issue is too important to leave to parliament to decide.

Things can only get better.

But they didn't did they?

Last election: Goldsmith is dead as is his party. I vote UKIP because I do not believe a United States of Europe is a good thing. In fact, I think it is a very, very bad thing and will eventually lead to war (not in my lifetime but someday in the future the USoE will, having failed to demolish the USA on economic terms, end up waring with them - history repeats itself, think of Japan and why it went war)

Anyway, 2005.

Killroy has joined and left UKIP since the last general election. UKIP has gone from being a one strategy party to a looney right wing party and I really, for the first time ever, don't know where to cast my vote.

I did the 'who should you vote for' thing online and was more than surprised to see Green second on my list. A few days later, my paper ran an abridged version of the same quiz and Green came out top!

So, I checked out their policies ... hmm don't agree with them all but 80% is good enough for me ... then I checked their candidate list ... no one standing in my constituency!

Frustrated, I googled up a list of candidates standing nationwide. Seems I only have a choice of four this year - the parachuted in tory asian (after grey pants gave it up) - how better to show you represent the ethnic minorities by guaranteeing a seat! A lib-dem, a labourite non-entity and a ukip twat.

Four candidates, none of whom I want to vote for.

Wonderful!

Not only that, I have to put up with mrs. s. calling me a beardy tree hugger since I mentioned the above.

I wouldn't mind but I shaved yesterday.