Election Time

So the battle to form the new government has started with the political parties telling us what wonderful people we are and how we will all work together to make Great Britain a wonderful place again. No mention of course that they allowed the greedy bankers and many of their corrupt parliamentary colleagues to drive it to its present situation in the first place.

The parties and their candidates make no real mention of how the next government, of whatever colour it may be, will deal with the hugh debt burden that faces the country. They mention some obscure savings plans using figures plucked from the air and, whilst they continue with the politcal half truths and posturing, the good old British public know damn well that there are hard times ahead. Jobs will be lost, services to all shades and needs of society will be diminished or lost and taxes of various sorts will rise - and none of them has got the guts or the honesty to say so in simple words.

The public have been dragged through the mire of the banking collapse and the filth of the politicians expenses and their subsequent protestations of innocence, and we are now to be subjected to the bullshit of the manifesto and the insulting of the publics' intelligence.

There are some 5.5 million ex-pats and only a pathetic 19,000 or so of those are registered to vote in UK elections. If only two million bothered to vote that would produce an electorate the equivalent of 28 parliamentary constituencies or nearly four and half per cent of the available seats in the House of Commons.

So, you politicians, beware the silverhaired ex-pat voter! and as for you ex-pats, get off your butts, register to vote and do something positive for a change instead of wingeing and leaving it to others.