Wednesday, September 13, 2006
I OUGHT AT LEAST VOTE FOR SOMEONE
He expressed the following so well, I thought his views were worth posting completely. Responding to my post on "a rising sectarian party", this email from "our correspondent" Bill in Aberystwyth came in on September 4. I'll let him speak for himself (and thanks again Bill!):
Which is a terrible shame really -- we know we should vote, and want to vote, and hope to find someone for whom to vote. Yet we are never entirely happy with the choices. Thus, we muddle forward . . . election after election. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, September 13, 2006
He expressed the following so well, I thought his views were worth posting completely. Responding to my post on "a rising sectarian party", this email from "our correspondent" Bill in Aberystwyth came in on September 4. I'll let him speak for himself (and thanks again Bill!):
Hope you enjoyed your holiday!
I was just writing to say I liked your piece on the recent defections to the Liberal Democrats. Sorry to say, I actually voted for this lot at the last election. OK, OK, I know what you're thinking, but I haven't quite lost my mind yet! It's just that I'm in a Plaid Cymru / Lib Dem marginal seat so the other choice was voting for a bunch of Welsh Supremacist Old-School Socialists... Anyway, that got me thinking - who the heck am I going to vote for at the next election? Tony usually makes a lot of sense - about the only big difference I have with him is that, like a lot of religious republicans in the states, he is a bit too respectful of Islam as one of the "big four" major world religions (anything being better than those nasty atheists!). But it appears to me his party is just too full of PC-types whose communalist politics ("The Muslim Community", "The LGBT Community" "The Afro-Caribbean Community" blah-blah-blah) are messing up the country at the moment. A non-Blairite Labour Party has little appeal to me anyway. With the Lib Dems going completely kooky and Cameron seeming to be, well, a bit of a drip really, there's not a lot left. From what I've seen of them UKIP seem to heading down the neo-isolationist line Douglas Hurd used to be so fond of and was so successful in the Balkans, I don't think. And as for the BNP, aaargh, no thanks!! I haven't slipped that low! Perhaps I shouldn't vote. But I've always taken the view that, since quite a few of my relatives risked their necks (and at least one died) in '39-45 to enable me to keep the right to do so, I ought at least use the opportunity to vote for SOMEONE.
I was just writing to say I liked your piece on the recent defections to the Liberal Democrats. Sorry to say, I actually voted for this lot at the last election. OK, OK, I know what you're thinking, but I haven't quite lost my mind yet! It's just that I'm in a Plaid Cymru / Lib Dem marginal seat so the other choice was voting for a bunch of Welsh Supremacist Old-School Socialists... Anyway, that got me thinking - who the heck am I going to vote for at the next election? Tony usually makes a lot of sense - about the only big difference I have with him is that, like a lot of religious republicans in the states, he is a bit too respectful of Islam as one of the "big four" major world religions (anything being better than those nasty atheists!). But it appears to me his party is just too full of PC-types whose communalist politics ("The Muslim Community", "The LGBT Community" "The Afro-Caribbean Community" blah-blah-blah) are messing up the country at the moment. A non-Blairite Labour Party has little appeal to me anyway. With the Lib Dems going completely kooky and Cameron seeming to be, well, a bit of a drip really, there's not a lot left. From what I've seen of them UKIP seem to heading down the neo-isolationist line Douglas Hurd used to be so fond of and was so successful in the Balkans, I don't think. And as for the BNP, aaargh, no thanks!! I haven't slipped that low! Perhaps I shouldn't vote. But I've always taken the view that, since quite a few of my relatives risked their necks (and at least one died) in '39-45 to enable me to keep the right to do so, I ought at least use the opportunity to vote for SOMEONE.
Which is a terrible shame really -- we know we should vote, and want to vote, and hope to find someone for whom to vote. Yet we are never entirely happy with the choices. Thus, we muddle forward . . . election after election. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, September 13, 2006
