It's local election day today. What to do.?. I can never vote Labour again after the lies about the war and increasingly because of their neo fascist tendencies on crime and civil liberties, as well as what they have done to public services with more privatisation and managerialist target cultures etc.. Even the Tories seem more attractive with their opposition to ID cards etc.. they are positively libertarian.. But here in Preston they have control of the Council, with Lib Dem support and have just slashed spending on the voluntary sector including turning down applications for money to support my own post at The Salvation Army.
So I'm just off to vote now and probably will end up writing in "none of the above".
Still at least I don't have a vote in the london Mayoral race where another one I could not vote for is actually an old friend and colleague Alan Craig. http://www.thechristianchoice.org/
He presents himself as "THE Christian Choice".. and among his policies is opposition to building a mosque, which brings joy to the heart of fascists and white racists. Actually some of the other policy ideas are not bad... and it would be good to have some more Christian influence and thinking in politics. But not at that price, and not on the assumption backed by too many church leaders that there is only one Christian viewpoint on all these issues.
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