Well it is now official, after all the days, weeks, months and probably years the election has been called. So why am I so underwhelmed by the whole process?
I suspect I feel so indifferent because I cannot get excited about the bunch of people who are standing. I live in the new South Leicestershire constituency, formally Blaby, and well this is a rotten borough. The Conservatives have always held this seat with a huge 8000+ majority at the last election. I know who will be the next MP for my constituency and so the whole election charabanc will mainly pass me by. This does lead to a feeling of canon fodder.
On a national level the only thing I want to see is Gordon Brown thrown out of No 10. This doesn't mean that I am in anyway favouring the Conservatives its just that I don't think that Gordon Brown has been a very good prime minister. He may have saved the nation's economy during the credit crunch but he got us into this mess in the first place - something he seems only too quick to forget - remember the ' end of boom and bust' boast.
So if not Gordon then who? Well at the moment no one. The Conservatives don't seem to me to have demonstrated any real quality in their leadership team and you always get the suspicion of Tory grandee slowly appearing with his duck house and moat. What relevance have they to today's problems?
The Lib Dems always seem like a reasonable party but of course this is because they will never form a government and so can seem non threatening. It is much harder when people think you may be in power in four weeks time to appear nice. Of course they may well have a big say in the forming of the new government and then we'll see how 'nice' they are when hard decisions have to be made.
So I don't know who to vote for but living where I do it doesn't really matter - the Tories will win. Perhaps the only glimmer of interest I have at the moment is that the is that the Lib Dems have a candidate called Aladdin, however this is from Wikipedia so who knows if it is true - the Lib Dem website is unclear who the candidate is. I suspect that sums up the whole process where I live .
I'm already bored and it has on been 12 hours....
Simon Marchini LRPS
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