Early Morning Nausea

It seems to be election day, doesn't it? I wouldn't really know since apparently I'm not registered to vote. I thought that I would be registered at home as I vote in the Northern Ireland elections but as it turns not, according to the electoral role, I do not exist. Anyway, I came across this link on voting at The Rambler.

According to The Times, Labour are up to some dirty tricks when it comes to the voting system. I wonder if Blair has been getting advice from his friends over in America.

An investigation by The Times has discovered that Labour’s General Secretary is urging activists to set up bogus ballot boxes today outside traditional polling stations in all-postal voting areas.

A document issued by Matt Carter, which has been seen by The Times, suggests that the activists should wear red rosettes to maximise the number of last-minute Labour votes collected in the bogus boxes, and to deter supporters of other parties from handing over completed voting slips.

A Labour MP has also told The Times that election cheats are collecting postal votes and changing the choice of candidates using Tipp-Ex correction fluid.

But the spokesman insisted there was “nothing inappropriate or illegal or wrong” about using false ballot boxes. “This is about making sure that people with a postal vote have it counted. This is not about handling ballot papers. We have always taken our responsibility in this area very seriously.”

See, I would have liked to have gotten ballot papers for England although I would not have voted. I vote in NI as there is a need to keep extremist parties like the DUP out but in England there is never anyone that I want to vote for, nor anyone that I actually really believe deserves to be in government. There's all these adverts on TV saying for people to be interested in politics to encourage them to vote. But my political act (however small it will be) will be a non-vote. If enough people don't vote then maybe the crap political parties that we have would take notice because its not a matter of not voting but simply that there is no one to vote for. I for one don't have any confidence in any of our major political parties. I mean, who really wants another Labour government with Blair at its head? But then one couldn't possibly vote conservative and the Lib Dems are just a pack of pussies.

It seems that Blair's sniffing around Bush's arse for the past few years has made for a hell of a lot of stupidity and corruption . And if this voting scandal that The Times is talking about is true then Labour's reputation has been futher sullied (which I didn't think was possible).


When it comes to the next general election I think I'll make my own ballot box and have it in my house. It will say "Glueboot for Prime Minister!" It may only have my vote in it but that will be enough. I'd rather vote for the ridiculous idea of me running the country rather than any of the fucking idiots we currently have.

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