Grey, Boring and Indifferent...

...the new names for the Labour, Tory-Fascist and Liberal Democrat parties respectively.

As someone who discovered they we're most likely to grow up to become some tedious stat monkey working for a faceless global corporation, I discovered that I had a sincere interest in politics from a young age. But recent times have seen me begin to inadvertently
relapse into a childish state where I no longer give a damn about who runs the country, who's in charge of local government or indeed which muppet decided it was a good idea to limit refuse collection to once every fortnight.

After all, we all know that it won't make one iota of difference anyway, they're all equally capable of screwing the country and failing to represent a significant percentage of the population.

I hate to say it, but apathy has begun to set it.

When people marked their 'X' on their polling slips this week, all they were really doing was selecting a new face for the same words. The only tangible difference between the three major political contenders is the colour of their rosette, and as they each drift slowly yet unerringly towards the Right we in turn drift towards the blighted wasteland of apathy.

In all seriousness, people are generally more likely to vote for the candidate they like the most on a personal level, regardless of their political ideals, and inevitably politics has become more about building a cult of personality (much like Stalin) than about effective policy making.

As the nation becomes more and more interested in bandwagoneering and buzz words, manifestos have evolved to accommodate this. The average voter is more concerned about when we're going to get rid of the Muslims and immigrants than they are about economic policy.

And who exactly is benefiting from this? Only the Right. The more a party promises to eject the immigrants and Muslims the more popular it becomes. Support for the Tory-Fascist party has significantly increased as of late and support for far-Right parties such as the BNP has been on the increase for some time now.

It is not hard to draw parallels to the rise of the Nazi party from the current situation in Britain. But this leaves us with a serious question that we as voters must answer. Is it right to vote against what we believe for what we think is in the best interest of the country, or do we abandon our democratic rights and sit back and smile as the country falls into the hands of the Witch Hunters?