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Bugger me, I’m running out of people to vote for.

I have voted in every election, national & local, since I was 18. I kind of feel that a lot of people paid some high prices for what few rights I have to alter how the country is run so I’d better make good use of it. For 30 years I was a Labour voter but without raking over old, familiar ground, I finally decided I could support them no more, so I switched allegiance to the LibDems.

I was particularly impressed by their opposition to student fees. Being as I am a couple of years into what may be a 10 year or more period of having to support kids through university, it was pretty high on the agenda, given that the reason I am still working is so that I can pay towards their costs so that they are not laden with a debt the size of my first mortgage when I was a few years older than they’ll be when they leave uni.

I have no time for the thugs responsible for the trouble in London & elsewhere over the past few weeks. I fully support the right to demonstrate & protest. But I hope those who stepped way over the mark are rounded up & dealt with appropriately. I have lots of sympathy & support for everyone else there yesterday.

It’s amazing how one’s principles can so easily be cast aside when the smell of power is in the nostrils.

My dalliance with support for the LibDems hasn’t lasted long.