Vote early, vote often … so long as it’s worthwhile
As I said yesterday, I’ve been pondering the rather rubbish choice we have in the forthcoming local elections. Checking the candidate list in the local paper, I discovered that in our ward there is a...
View ArticleMay the Fourth be with you
Local election day today, and, as I said on Saturday, I won’t be voting for either of the two candidates I have.* No doubt the politicians would write me off as an Apathetic Non-Voter. That’s because,...
View ArticleEnd of the week
Hurrah, it’s Friday again. I have a busy busy weekend ahead, though, so I’ll probably be more tired on Monday than I am now. I haven’t bothered to find out how the local elections went, but I have...
View ArticleVoter Participation
About a year ago,* I wrote about local elections, and why I wasn’t going to bother voting. I didn’t think it was a particularly good post myself, but it was good enough for the Guardian to quote it, so...
View ArticleRunning The Place
People I come across, for once, seem to be getting themselves interested in politics. The local elections, and the soaring cost of petrol,* are for once getting people interested in who runs the...
View ArticleThe Politics Show
I’ve been quiet about politics here lately, save for that post about revolutions the other day. The more noise there is about politics in the press, the less I want to add to the “debate”. All I feel...
View ArticleHumility
This is just a quick note; I didn’t intend to write another political post so soon again. But I felt it needed saying, as someone who was born in the now-deceased Humberside and was a registered voter...
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