I’ve just been out to vote in the European elections, because as a rule I think people should vote in stuff. And while it was a very difficult choice, in the end I voted for the only sane option. (Click pic to view.)
I truly believe it’s the best choice for Britain.
Because readers, look at the options I had.
The narrowly self-interested pick, of course, would have been to vote for the Brexit Party, because the hardest and worst sort of Brexit is unarguably the best outcome for the independence movement. But even if I’d been willing to do that to all my English friends, ANNE WIDDECOMBE? Come on. Some things are beyond the pale.
Conversely, the most obvious Remain choice is the Liberal Democrats. But I couldn’t risk having them pervert my vote into support for Scotland staying in the UK.
And if we’re talking about perverted stuff, I also probably couldn’t ever vote again for a party that had enthusiastically welcomed the truly loathsome horror Aimee Challenor into its ranks, and indeed into a party job.
Which also rules out the Greens.
That pretty much only left Change UK as a Remain option, which as well as being a totally wasted vote according to opinion polling would have meant trying to elect Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel (she’s their lead candidate in the region), and quite frankly the Johnson family get more than enough public money as it is.
So how about the tactical Leave vote? UKIP are standing the infamous Carl “Sargon Of Akkad” Benjamin in the southwest, so no.
Vote Labour just for the LOLZ? That’d likely mean electing Lord Andrew “stop Brexit by voting for a party committed to Brexit” Adonis, and that would just be a bit too much of a (self-inflicted) insult to the intelligence.
The Tories? Don’t be silly.
The English Democrats were quite a tempting possibility as a de facto vote for Scottish independence, but you’ve got to draw a line somewhere.
So now we’re down to the independents. Hoo boy.
It seemed irresponsible to vote someone who’s on sabbatical until Christmas into a job that’s only going to last until October, so reluctantly Larch Maxey went into the bin, out of which he can possibly forage himself later.
Then there was Mathiur Rahman.
Yeah, next please.
And that only left Neville Seed standing. But despite having a name almost as excellent as Larch Maxey’s, it was hard to identify why even Neville wanted people to vote for him. His main policy platform appears to be “suggest some policies you might like me to campaign for”.
So in the end, readers, in the South West England And Gibraltar region there’s only one sensible thing to do. Vote for sanity – vote Rabid Wolves.
