It's no wonder this system is so open to abuse.
Anyway, assuming someone hasn't snagged my vote already, I'll be heading down on the 5th to vote - though I'm still not sure who for.
Labour I can't stand. They've let themselves become the Tory-by-proxy party under Tony Blair, who's lying and dodging over anything of substance is appaling to watch (though compelling, as the special Question Time broadcast shows). Yet the party clings to him because he made them electable after eighteen years of Tory rule (though, arguably, it was by simply claiming to be sleaze-free - and on that too he failed to deliver).
The Conservatives are hopeless. The Labour party has taken all their policies (and how... neither I not Tony had to pay our tuition fees at University but now, under a Labour government, everyone does) leaving them only immigration to push to the right. Where the BNP sits, grinning. They're reduced to claiming they'd do whatever Tony has done, but “better and cheaper”. Their ad campaigns are marginally less insulting than Labour's (Labour: “Britain forward not back”? Was that borrowed from Chairman Mao's little red book?) but almost completely lacking in reasons to vote for them.
And the Liberal Democrats... sometimes they seem worthwhile: against the Iraq war and ID cards. But then they blow it all by promising to support the European Constitution.
That highlights the major issue with the representational democracy we currently have: it's a package deal. If you like the way Labour have handled the economy since they got in power, you've got to pony up for their asinine ID card scam. And it's not as if “go fuck up that bitch Saddam” was on Labour's manifesto last time (mind you, I wasn't in the country at the time - so I'm kind of guessing) and they still managed to get that one going. 45 minutes my codlings.
a vote for Jesus is a vote for love.