I voted Labour in the European elections. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.
After weeks of anger at the expenses scandal, I went to bed with my mind fully made up that I was going to vote Green. I woke up knowing what to do. I went and did it at about 7.15am (I always vote early, for some reason I can't sleep beyond 6am on polling days, even the Much-Piddling-In-The-Swamp town by-election) and I haven't felt better in a long time. I'm not even going to apologise for it. One's vote is an expression of one's conscience, not something to be used in anger or greed.
You see, without Hazel Blears and Jacqui Smith, the Cabinet looks a lot cleaner than it did in recent weeks. Hopefully, Alistair "Captain" Darling will take the hint, but bizarrely the sleaze quotient of the Cabinet has gone down remarkably since those two resignations and Labour will be better without them.
Meanwhile the Tories still have to put their house in order, and conveniently forget the old mantra - what goes around, comes around.
Funny old world, as someone said.
