The election has not actually been declared yet but it is only a matter of hours before the starting pistol is fired for the official campaigning to begin. I just hope folks are not sick of it already.
The clear blue water between the main Parties is almost non-existent so we will have to recall our history to help inform our decisions on polling day or try to pick our way through the rhetoric. The televised debates may help, but let’s be honest so much of that will be a beauty contest, as we listen with our eyes not our ears. Moreover, much like the first of these (Ask The Chancellors) the words will be so bland the only Party able to be robust and take risks will the one with least chance of forming a Government.
My parents generation of voters – yes there are some left, will remember the Wilson years and fear the worst, my generation will recall Thatcherism and (hopefully) shy away from the greed and selfishness of those years. And today’s young people will judge the Blair years - an era of spin and a war we followed as America’s poodle.
Whatever your political views I urge you to exercise your choice.
We adults have not all had the right to vote for that long - 1928 saw women achieve equal rights to vote following a campaign in which a number lost their lives for the cause. So, don’t stay at home go and cast a vote of some sort, exercise real choice – it is apathy that allows extremists to get in, then we will have something to moan about.
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Couldn't agree more Jane.
I doubt if equal opportunity has ever gone back to the level before HER whom I cannot name - it would burn my mouth. Tory B. was not exactly an example of left-wing politics either.
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