And the rubber button...?

Well, folks, I have done my bit for democracy for another day, and voted in the local & Euro elections on our way back from playgroup.

I was amazed at the amount of joke parties and one-trick-pony nutter parties on the local ballot form, though. We had candidates for the Bastard Nazi Pudendas, some sort of Jesus-Bothering Party, THREE separate anti-EU/not-quite-as-racist-as-The-Twats-but-getting-there fringe parties, not counting UKIP who were also skulking around my ballot paper, a Socialist Labour party making sure there was at least one hard-left fringe party to keep all those hard-right ones amused, something called Jury Team which, while having a fairly impressive Superhero Gang type name, gave absolutely no indication about which (doubtless single-issue) policy it was they represented, as well as one Billy No Mates desperately seeking attention by standing with a Joke Party. Plus the three main parties and the Greens. That's loads! Maybe it'll help spread the bitter, racist, xenophobic, thick-as-shit nutter votes out having quite so many, but honestly. Who looks at the political climate and thinks 'I know what there's room in this market for! Yet another knee-jerk-hooray-for-the-queen fringe party! Because UKIP and all those other Right-Wing parties don't *quite* represent the level of distrust I have for Teh Forruns properly. I'll make my own. I'll give it a name that makes it sound like a rubbish online dating service, or one that mentions how awesome Ingerland is. Yeah. This time tomorrow I'll be Prime Minister!'

Oh well. It's their own money they're wasting, I suppose. Go Go Democracy and all that jazz.