Use your vote wisely

The polling stations have been open for 20 minutes now and today is probably a once in a lifetime chance to change the face of English politics forever.

For too long, English politics has been about the same tired old parties - the dishonest Conservatives, the illiberal and economically illiterate Labour Party and the weak and ineffectual Lib Dems.  We've seen our country bankrupted and sold to the EU and our trust abused by thieving politicians.  Today we have a chance to break the stranglehold the corrupt LibLabCon have over our country and change the way it is governed.

It might not seem like it with the media's obsession over Brown, Cameron and Clegg and the exclusive "Leaders Debates" but today we are voting for an MP, not a Prime Minister.  If you listen to the LibLabCon and cast a so-called "tactical" vote then you've cast a wasted vote.  If you vote for somebody you don't want to try and stop someone else you don't want from winning then all you're going to get is someone you don't want representing you for the next 5 years.

You know that feeling you get when you're choosing a new mobile phone?  You look at all the features and read the reviews and think "Can I live with this phone for the next 12-18 months until I'm due my next upgrade?".  That's the feeling you should be getting when you look at your ballot paper multiplied by a thousand.  The person you vote for today (if he or she wins) is going to represent you in Westminster for up to 5 years.

Forget about the Leaders debates - unless you live in Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Witney, Sheffield Hallam or Bangladesh, you're not voting for any of them.  Forget about a hung parliament - a hung parliament is healthy for democracy, it's only the megalomaniac party leaders that have anything to lose from a hung parliament.  Forget about the "big picture", it'll look after itself.

There is no such thing as a wasted vote, us it wisely.