[Anonymouse]

Frankly, I'm no fan of any of them. I still want a 'None Of The Above' option - that way the politicians would find out, for certain, what the electorate really thinks. I reckon NOTA would get a majority, It'd be fun, if nothing else, to see what would happen.

For myself, Heinlein's logic still rings true: if you can't decide who to vote for, then vote against. The fly in the ointment is that if you don't want to vote for any of them, then you end up voting for none of them, i.e. not voting. Which is precisely why I want NOTA - it would be possible to make your feelings known while not compromising your principles by voting for someone you don't want to vote for. (The exception to this was 1997, when millions of people including me voted against the Tories for the simple reason that we were desperate to get rid of them! I don't know anyone who reckoned Labour would be any better - they weren't, of course, and I never trusted Blair and that creepy smile anyway - but at least they weren't the damn Tories!)

And don't give me that cobblers about not being entitled to complain if you don't vote - us non-voters still have to pay our taxes, which pay for whichever government gets in! (Speaking of taxes, did you know tax rebates are taxed? Yeah - I claimed a rebate for work uniform laundry...and lost 20% of it in VAT! )

The current political system does not work. End of. As far as I'm concerned they can all take a running jump.