Exercising my Franchise

I decided to go and vote in today's local elections.

The choice was thus:

Labour - but like many people I feel very very betrayed by Labour because of Iraq.

Conservative - Floral Frock Lady, see my earlier post. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Green Socialist Alliance (I think that's what they're called). - My mother voted for them because of her fury with Mr Blair. Please don't tell the Communist, for whom voting anything but Labour is undiscussable, even though he hates New Labour with a passion. He would, of course, vote Communist but since there's never a Communist candidate hereabouts it has to be Labour. I think the Green Socialists sound quite appealing but suspect they're a bit knit-your-own-lentils and haven't quite thought things through - perhaps the terrible state of the Leeds roads wouldn't be at the forefront of their agenda.

Liberal Democrat - I was at school with one of their councillors and he was a nice bloke but that's no reason to vote for a party and I don't really know what they stand for or what they'd do - - and I was mulling this over and then I spotted - -

BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY - - and that brought me up sharpish. Make no mistake, here we have Fascism Revisited. Oh boy, people have short memories. Never mind all that sanitising of it that they try to do these days - they're Fascists. Even one vote is too many.

So I had to vote Labour, just on principle really. But if you happen to see Tony, tell him it was with a heavy heart.