Shame

Throughout the wilderness years of the mid-eighties & early nineties, the predictably disappointing Tory re-election in 1987 and the "still can't believe it even now" but equally disappointing Tory re-election in 1992, at least you had the local council elections to look forward to.

Tory bloody nose after Tory bloody nose made the activists (of which I was one for quite a while) believe that next time, next time, we could do it.

John O'Farrell summed it up better than me. If you have ever spent day after day posting leaflets though doors, canvassing in all weathers & asking voters for their polling numbers outside your local library but haven't read "Things Can Only get Better", buy it today, read it tomorrow.

In those days, for some bizarre reason, people would quite happily vote Labour locally, but then pat their wallets as they walked to the polling booths for a General Election.

Now, that's turned full circle. I suppose it brings about a mixture of ruling parties throughout the country. We wouldn't want anything close to a one party state.

However, there is a line to be drawn.

How can anyone possibly think that it is acceptable to vote for the B*P ? Shame, shame, shame on those that did.

But to actually elect councilors, this is serious. What has happened to this country that we actually electing people to represent us & make legislative decisions, when 60 years ago, we were lining them up in courts for human rights abuses. We fought wars against these people, we shouldn't be inviting them to make decisions on local services.

I won't mention the leaders name. He's a c**t and needs starving of the oxygen of publicity.

Personally, I'd just like to starve him of oxygen.