Will there be an election before May 2010 in the United Kingdom?
I ask only because this week I received literature from two political parties through my front door. The Liberal Democratic Party were the first with large format 'red top' style "Lewisham News" delivered on Wednesday, I think. Their headline for Lewisham voters was "Iraq Cover Up Shame". This leaflet was in a large pile of post and junk mail that day including business cards from "Catford Cars" which, struck me as potentially emblematic but I'll leave others to waffle on about that.
This morning, The Conservative Party were alert enough to push "In Touch....with your local Conservatives" through my letter box. Next to its headline was a photo of Boris Johnson, London's Mayor, with Jonathan Clamp, East Lewisham's Tory Party candidate. Both looking very dapper in suits and ties. The headline was "Conservatives Protect Freedom Pass". I didn't read beyond the headline......I know it's bollocks.....
Anyway, to continue....Do the Lib Dems and Tories know something we don't? Will the UK election happen earlier than May? The economic growth figures are due out shortly. I'm sure we'll find out we have a 'snap election' if they 'prove' Britain is 'out of recession', whatever that means.
It makes no difference to me at all. I haven't voted since 1986. I did go through a phase of spoiling my ballot card, including bringing various of my children in pushchairs to the election booth and inviting them to doodle in the ballot, too. These days, my children are older, less likely to do as they are asked and might question what they were doing in such an peculiar environment!
There is a metaphor somewhere there, too.
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