I'm not Telling you How to Vote, just Don't Vote Labour.

The good news is this blog will be back to normal service next Tuesday. Good old BT. Anyway, time to just give you an opinion on how to use your electoral prerogative, which most of you in the UK will have the chance to do next Thursday.

Generally, I'm fairly disillusioned with the party political system and I really find myself saying 'A Plague on all your houses', but I think one thing is clear.
It's time we got this bunch of failing no hopers out. We have a chance to show them that we're sick of them even before Brown takes the helm. It's possible a bad enough result in Scotland might kill his chances completely, but that's another matter.

Personally, I would simply say vote tactically wherever you are for whoever gets Labour out. That could Conservative, it could be Liberal Democrat, it could be Green, it could be SNP, it could by Plaid Cymru. They all represent change from what we have and a chance for some real debate to be opened up. I don't really have a problem with either of them, compared to the subtle totalitarianism that is New Labour. I don't believe that either of them are any more sincere, but it is time to open up the channels of real democracy.
Obviously I'd rather you didn't vote for the BNP and suchlike, but that is your choice.

I'd like to see the outcome of the next election as a Tory/LD coalition myself. I think the LDs as coalition partners would ensure the Tories' conversion to true social liberalism, as well as their traditional economic liberalism, would stay more than skin deep, whilst the Tories would be a brake on some of the more bizarre economic ideas of some parts of the Liberal Democrat Party.

I sincerely hope the Scots vote for independence, I think it's time we buried the ghost of the Empire, and I think a Tory/Plaid administration in Wales would be interesting.

But mostly, I just want the people of these isles to say; things obviously couldn't only get better. They haven't.

See you properly again soon.