Boredom
I came back from holiday expecting to have lots of insulting things to say about the two/four candidates, ow the jet lag has passed.
We have the two main parties who seem determined to bore the candidates by barely rising to the level of tedium; on a good day.
Where's the real local policies and the real excitment?
Boredom is not really a way to motivate the electorate.
I feel an electoral coma coming on....
We have the two main parties who seem determined to bore the candidates by barely rising to the level of tedium; on a good day.
Where's the real local policies and the real excitment?
Boredom is not really a way to motivate the electorate.
I feel an electoral coma coming on....
6 comments:
I think the electorate are so brain dead and set in their ways that it really doesn't matter what the main issues and policies are. The way people vote (or not)in Scotland is so ingrained that the majority just stick the cross against the party they always voted for, and that's if they can be bothered turning out at all.
I'd go so far as to say that if you ran a test asking people to match the policies to the parties or candidates very few would score even 50%.
One of them wants to be canvassed by the voters...
It is very inspiring to know that AA 'works for us'.
SNP win. Nuff said.
So,
No major issues.
No mud slinging.
No massive differences in policy.
No massive difference in their characters.
Yes, we do seem to have a rather grey election campaign. However this could be a good thing, we now have to make a straight vote between the SNP & Labour on a national level as locally either candidate will probably 'work hard' and be a characterless MSP. The western isles seat could be pivotal if things are close with no party having a majority and they are trying to form a government. On this basis I'm left with no choice but to vote labour as I fundamentally disagree with many of the SNP's half baked ideas -particularly an independent Scotland.
Do you really blame people for being uninvolved? We have the SNP - on the one hand - who seem to live in a green fairyland? (It'll cost £8000 per every household in Islay to be powered by their tidal power station - and that doesn't even count the extensive underwater repairs that will be involved.) On the other, we have the Labour Party, who seem to echo every stupid, expensive pledge made by their opponents, whether it makes sense or not?
As for the rest of them...
No matter what party gets into power in Holyrood,sooner or later, the old Scottish prophecy is going to come true.
We'll pay for it...
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