Due to hating the party system, today I shall take great pleasure in not voting based on the colour of the rosettes – not least because the Lib Dems have inexplicably adopted UKIP’s colour scheme of yellow and purple, making things both aesthetically repulsive and slightly confusing – but on individual candidates’ policies, personalities and potential.<\/p>\n
This entertainingly means that I will end up voting for the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems all on the same day.<\/p>\n
Huzzah for elections where I get four votes! (Boo, however, for party list systems, which means my fourth vote is going to be very difficult to allocate – hence not having voted yet… I may even say sod it and go for the Greens, just so I can vote for four parties at once…)<\/p>\n
In other news:<\/strong> Congrats to the BBC’s Alan Little, who won last night’s UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award, like wot I was up for. I ended up with a shiny award anyway, though, with a Jury’s Commendation, which was nice. I can also report that Reuters lay on very drinkable wine, and that Mark Mardell<\/a> makes for good company at the dinner table. Ta to all involved, etc.<\/p>\n Edit:<\/strong> Oh, and sorry for the lack of posts recently. Still very busy – but there’s still a rather fun discussion going on in the comments<\/a> to that democratic deficit post, though. One to which I will return soon. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Due to hating the party system, today I shall take great pleasure in not voting based on the colour of the rosettes – not least because the Lib Dems have inexplicably adopted UKIP’s colour scheme of yellow and purple, making … Continue reading