Today started like any other day: I woke up, I got dressed, I read my mail, etc, but then BOOM! “Official poll card” sitting right there on top of the fireplace. I was tempted to drop it into the gaping, flaming hole in the wall. What an inconvenience. Don't get me wrong, but handing the vote to the public is the worst thing you could possibly do in the aims of a “democracy”.
Allow me to explain; in terms of hierarchy (from most powerful to least powerful): The USA, the Prime Minister, the UN, MP's, government controlled organizations, la policia, people with money, minorities (generally ethnic), then YOU. Therefore, any spiel that anyone above you says gets put in the news, or adverts, or films, or reality TV, or soaps, or the internet for you to sponge up
Well, essentially. I walked in the polling station and was baffled. There were the usual Labour, Conservative and BNP choices on the massive yellow sheet of doom, but accompanied by random people I've never heard of, like “the English Democratic Party”, something to do with Christianity, somebody with a £ in their logo. It was all very foreign to me, which is ironic, given it's a vote for my country, however screwed up it is.
Who did I pick? Well Labour and Conservative are practically the same party these days. I'd previously wanted to vote for the Green party in this situation, but since that epiphany I found out that humans are far less fatal to the environment than the emissions of algae, volcanoes, squirrels, etc. I wasn't going to vote BNP because regardless of how far right they are, they're still self-righteous *******s.
So, this left me with the unknown parties. The Democratic Party would be nice if democracy worked, the Socialist Party would be nice if it didn't lead to Nazism, Britain relies on so many outsourced materials that the Independent Party was out of the question.
Ultimately I voted for Christianity. I'm a raving Atheist, but besides not voting at all, it was the best choice because I'll be damned if they ever win anything political (and Scientology wasn't on the list).
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