Why I won't be voting tactically

[altariel]

Meanwhile, in the present, the rough beast of the election slouches on - apparently the fate of the nation lies solely in the hands of a few lunatic tactical voters in Royston Vasey, or perhaps it was a Daschund called Colin, I forget now. Every other piece of political propaganda popping through my letterbox earnestly exhorts me to cast a tactical vote in order to keep out whoever.

Back, back, ye demons of cynicism! I shall not make my already meagre contribution to democracy even more pointless! I shall cast a vote that roughly approximates to my beliefs! The BBC as ever provides: here I may compare and contrast the relative merits of arsenic, strychnine, and hemlock. And on May 5th I shall take my poison, secure in the knowledge that I may have only cried out in the wilderness, but at least it was for something I nearly believe in.

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I quite enjoyed Simon Jenkins (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1059-1586733,00.html)'s attempts to give us directions. In fact, I generally enjoy Simon Jenkins. I wish he'd hurry up and join The Guardian.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a brilliant piece of writing and makes me despair even more. Maybe I'll vote Green.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

No, no! For Green, vote... umm... purple?

Incidentally, I don't expect UKIP to be very bright, and delivering one UKIP leaflet to a house displaying nine Labour posters might be dismissed as simple optimism. But delivering an identical UKIP leaflet to the same house three days later is, well... profligate.