PLEASE VOTE FOR...WHO YOU WANT TO!

[Karan]:  I'm fed up with everyone telling me how to vote, and in particular that I should vote Labour! 

By everyone I'm referring to some of those I follow on Facebook and Twitter, some of whom are in the public eye and should know better than try to influence people by using their elevated public position.  There is of course one quick, easy and painless solution to my problem - I have stopped following the culprits, but it's the principle that has got my goat - who the hell do they think they are?!

As we're in the midst of a general election I can just about tolerate weeks of party political activists urging me to vote their way as opposed the evils that await me if I dare vote the other; it's their job.  But I draw the line at feeble TV personalities and D-list celebrities Tweetpic-ing who they have in their helicopter whilst on the campaign trail over the weekend!  Champagne socialists should definately be doomed to Room 101 if you ask me, they're a scourge.

Can I just ask a question to the celebs who repeatedly insist I vote Labour?  If Labour were truly the great saviours of the universe you believe them to be, why are you taking every opportunity to influence me?  Surely their greatness would be obvious, and you'd be confident of a landslide majority on Thursday?  But you're not confident of a landslide majority are you; you're not even confident of coming in as Her Majesty's Opposition, are you?  Why should you when Labour have taken us into an illegal war, failed repeatedly to supply our troops with even the basic equipment to keep them alive - and don't get me started on the NHS, education, immigration and the economy! 

And before you ask, please do not assume to know who I am voting for, as I am not a dyed-in-the-wool anything.  You may be surprised to know who I have supported in past elections, but at the end of the day, who I vote for is none of your business, and who you vote for is none of my business. 

My only concern is that people should vote.  Like I said in an earlier blog entry not so long ago, people have died and continue to die for the privilege of democracy.  The Suffragettes battled like hell to win the right for women to vote, and were routinely imprisoned for their efforts.  Many died on hunger strike and Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under the King's horse so that women would eventually be permitted the vote; it wasn't always our entitlement.  I therefore believe that we all have a duty to vote with our consciences - what if everyone shrugged their shoulders?

Decisions are made by those who show up!  Please vote on Thursday.