Why I don't vote, number one in a
series of many
The first election in which I was
eligible to vote saw Thatcher and the Tories take power. The
manifesto? Law and order. Cutting tax. Cutting bureaucracy. Those are
the big ticket items I remember. Four years later...
...we'd had riots. Brixton (I lived a
few miles away at the time), Toxteth, so on. Serious stuff. The
recent riots were a little bit of benign burnin' and lootin' in
comparison. Dead coppers. Paving slabs launched at fire engines.
Race, class, real hatred and tensions spilling over. I'd mark that a
resounding fail.
...no increase in tax threshold = tax
increase in real terms. Another fail.
...cutting bureaucracy? More red tape
and the civil service budget more than before. I'd say that's a fail,
too.
Election result? Landslide victory to
Daggers and her boot boys.
I thought then: “this voting thing,
not for me. Nothing changes.”
How don't vote translates into
Olympic sceptic
When politicians jump up and down, my
reflex is to do the opposite and ignore the hype. The games are a
vanity project for Westminster. How many of those overpaid
talkingshop burdens on the taxpayer regularly put on their boots or
their spikes and play competitive sport? How many stick their necks
on the line and oppose the selling off of school playing fields?
I find it absurd and frightening that
MM, a natural athlete with an eye for a ball, never, in his secondary
education, at a sports academy, had a formal lesson in cricket. He
had some in salsa or rhumba or something similar. Thanks, Ed Balls
and your department for that.
If those guys are excited and all over
it, I reflexively think it stinks. Stink it does, too. We'll see in
six months when they've reverted to type, and sport, as important as
anything else in the world, is relegated to the bottom of their
agenda.
Balls
This is Ed Balls. He was the education
bloke. Parents everywhere must be rejoicing, at least until they see
the replacement. World's leading expert in his own mind. Never took a
lesson in his life.
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