As May draws to a chilly end I thought I might just add my own editor’s blog to the multitude swamping the Internet. It just so happens to have been an eventful month, certainly in the eyes of this critical beholder. So let me start at the beginning of a month that saw the country’s ruling political party receive a well-earned bloody nose from its electorate (and not before time). Rock ‘n’ Roll arrived (at last) in the political arena when Nasty New Labour lost hundreds of council seats in England, while in the dissolved parliaments of Scotland and Wales rule moved more decisively to ‘no overall control’ (via a fairer proportional representation voting system). Ask yourself the question, ‘Why has the ballot system been so open to question since NNL came to power?’ The situation in Scotland is nothing short of a scandal with over 150,000 votes excluded due to an administrative blunder that left voters confused on how to fill in ballot papers for 2 separate elections held on the same day. Postal ballots have also been open to fraud following NNL’s insistence on ‘promoting’ the system ‘to involve more people in the democratic process.’ Bullcrap! Some years ago I saw at first hand the ‘opportunism’ of NNL council candidates in concentrating efforts on ‘helping’ the aged and infirm cast their postal votes. It was a successful strategy that saw NNL grab seats and ultimately council control. The simple fact is that this garnering of aged and infirm votes has been transposed to the mother of parliaments by those who so successfully exploited the postal system. Let’s cut to the chase: despite dire warnings from detached, expert observers, NNL went ahead in a desperate bid to bolster its flagging popularity under its most corrupt, incompetent, warmongering, deceitful and Shakespearean leader T Blair (can’t bring myself to call him Tony). Incidentally, have you noticed how the worst somehow manage to make themselves millionaires…?

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