Since I reached the majority 20 (gulp) years ago, this is the first time I haven't voted.
I understand and accept all the arguements - if you don't vote you can't moan etc...-, but, do you know what, I couldn't care less if I tried.
My condemnation is the very fact that I didn't vote.
I am utterly disillusioned with the whole lot of them. Our legislators, the people we look to to govern us, have bent us over a barrel and royally ****** us up the arse.
From that hateful woman Smith, who, with a straight face, tried to tell us her sister's back bedroom was her main residence, that other hateful woman Blears, wandering up and down Downing Street waving her cheque, Harman, telling us (like Smith, with a straight face) that it isn't the politicians fault its the 'system's' fault, Darling, the accountant of the country stealing from us...........they just completely and utterly stink, the whole stinking thieving lot of 'em.
If I hear 'I've acted within the rules' or any variant thereof again, I think I will be compelled to kill - which, presumably, will be OK if I apologise afterwards.