I'm don't know the 'ins & outs' of politics, and i wouldn't glass you Besty, probably eat me alive in any context that you care to put that in.

Everything depends on your situation, if you're living at home, earning under x amount a year or don't have a job it probably does seem you have very little to gain from it all.
Though i know you all like a drink (Belly a secret alcoholic he just wont let on), cost of cider just get hit by a 10% increase on tax

Although that does bring it into line with beer . Cider always used to be taxed less ! Oh unhappy day lol

Nice to see there's so many MPs eager to quit ahead of the election so they can cash in on their £65,000 golden handshake before the loophole gets closed.
Bastards.

As a fellow cider connoisseur I feel compelled to tell you that Jaques isn't cider, it's very grim and not in a kvlt way!

I have a degree in Politics and am very aware of the necessity of voting but, to be honest, really don't see the point at the moment. You'd be hard pressed to slip a human hair between any of the three main parties and I don't really like any of their policies nor their very American, negative advertising/propaganda that they're using more and more.

Ultimately, I fundamentally don't trust any of them. Not even in the 'I at least know I can't trust you because you're a politician' manner...I think that certainly Brown and Cameron are basically unpleasant and shifty people (although, surprisingly, I quite liked the 'outing' that Brown got as a shouting bully...). Who knows anything about Nick Clegg? Typical Lib Dem blandness. There's also the awareness that the whole 'sovereign nation' concept is basically a sham in the current political climate. I don't think that the single figurehead of a country matters less and less, compared to the civil service apparatus and the world-spanning economic forces that are evident.

I normally vote Green as a protest vote, not necessarily to get the Greens into power but to show that there's support for Green politics and in an attempt to get the major parties to be aware of this. How this is going to play out with the internal issues that are going on in Scotland at the moment, I don't know.

Caveat voter ( ) and remember the words of the master:

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
Niccolo Machiavelli