Wednesday, April 13, 2005

In the interests of true balance, here's some links to a couple of site that exhort you to exercise your democratic right of abstension:

Spoil Your Vote who should hurry up and get a usable logo
and


Where you can leave a note specifying your reasons for not voting.


While I'm at it here's the breakdowns of the results of every post-war General Election, and the turnouts for each, courtesy of the Electoral Reform Society

Not very surprisingly, it reveals that only around 25% of the population votes for the winning party in any given election. The voice of the people indeed...

I mentioned Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo doing an "Amarillo" in one of my questionnaires. Well this page has a link for you to watch this bizarre occurrence. What's worse is that Tony Christie himself actally rewrote the song to include the chorus "Election Fever's in the air"!

Hate to break it to you chaps...