The lack of a viable election candidate was certainly evident in our household today. Over the last few weeks we have had bumf through the letterbox from the Tories, Labour, UKIP and the Socialist Labour party. But nothing from the Liberals, Greens or the Kilroys. So we figured that we should have a bit of a look at who we actually vote for. A closer look at the BBC Election site showed that the Greens aren't standing in our constituency. So we can't vote for them.
...which leaves the Liberals. Our Liberal candidate is Adam Killeya, who I can only describe as a balding bespectacled child. I really must be getting old (touching thirty apparently) if prospective politicians are younger than me - I've had more votes than him for gawd sake. Judging by past voting records locally he almost certainly doesn't stand a chance. Never mind.
It's quite scary to think that casting a vote for the people we are supposed to trust to run our country is almost based on an ip-dip-dog-shit-out-go-smelly strategy given the lack of positive feeling towards any candidate/party
Speaking of young whippersnappers we were interested to note the candidacy of Oscar Van Noodledoodle down in Newbury. He went to my school and considering he's been made a candidate at the age of 22 will probably end up being Prime Minister. His online campaign has spawned some very funny threads on newburyweb.net
