I wish I could be bothered to blog about this General Election.
If you look at what I wrote about the US Presidential Election six months ago, and then at how much I’ve written about this one…
There’s something about British politics at the moment (or ever, for that matter) that seems boring. I can understand why young people might feel no incentive to vote. I’m not one of them… but I appreciate the fact that because of the way I voted where I voted, my vote will have absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election, either locally or nationally. It’s a bizzare system, first-past-the-post, in that it immediately disenfranchises half the electorate.
It also seems particularly distant to me at the moment. As if the result somehow won’t affect me. I’m not sure why.
Anyway, as a heads-up… the results, as predicted by the Castle JCR Election-o-meter (as of 00:01, 5 May 2005):
4th, 10 votes (7.5%), Labour
3rd, 32 votes (23.9%), Conservatives
1st=, 46 votes (34.3%), Lib Dems
1st=, 46 votes (34.3%), John the Maid
Not too sure how representative those votes are, though…
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…well, we’ll find out soon enough! Yes, that’s right folks, it just so happens that there is one of those general election thingys today. But does anyone really care? Have we become a country so apathetic that we can’t be…