They're not voting because...
- I have a lot of respect for my (Labour...
I have a lot of respect for my (Labour) MP, Diane Abbott, and I want to vote for her; but a vote for her will count in the national statistics as a vote for Labour, and hence for the most brazen liar to have occupied 10 Downing Street in living memory. There are also other candidates who merit my vote, and I wish we had a preferential voting system, as in the Republic of Ireland, so that I could vote for more than one.
written 18th Apr 2005