Mustn't grumble

For all you folks in the UK who go to the polls tomorrow, good on yer for exercising your right and your duty to vote. I understand perfectly that it’s an exercise in trying to send the least offensive, brain-dead and corrupt opportunists to Parliament, and that many of you are basically closing your eyes and hoping for the best.

I also have no doubt that were someone to somehow get on the ballot under the name “None of the Above”, s/he would win by a landslide. Thus has democracy evolved.

However, I do not want to hear a single word—not Peep One—about how painful it’s been for the last six weeks, having to listen to/watch the candidates prancing about the country promising you the moon and slagging off on their opponents. You get six weeks of it; we’re already seeing that for the presidential elections that don’t take place until November of next year. Every six hours we get another bozo declaring his/her candidacy, and it’s only going to get worse as time (but not politics) progresses.

You are—if you’ll forgive my tartness—complete pikers in this regard. So vote your heart, vote your party loyalty, vote your disgust, vote your hope. It’ll all be over by Friday.

And best of British luck on whatever you end up with.