Karen Bruce, Labour activist in my contituency, has a website. I quote from her latest blog post entitled “What will the parties do for women?”:

“I was sorry to miss being at the LSE’s ‘what about women’ election debate I was meant to be at this week. I have just watched it on video and it was a great debate. You can watch the debate between Harriet Harman, Lynne Featherstone and Theresa May here. It’s a disgrace though that women (apart from the leaders’ wives) haven’t had the chance to be more prominent and at the forefront of the general election campaign as they should be. You may not get the chance to see women from the three parties debate in a high profile TV debate such as the leaders’ debates, but it’s well worth watching it via the LSE website.”

Sorry, what? “It’s a disgrace though that women (apart from the leaders’ wives) haven’t had the chance to be more prominent…”

Since when was it universally accepted that leader’s wives (or husbands, or whatever) should be prominent in politics? They’re not politicians! When leader’s wives get in front of the cameras, all that comes out of the media is who looks prettiest, or who’s the most fashionable. It would do us all a favour if they stayed in the background and didn’t detract from actual, political discussion. We need to be voting on policies, not who has the nicest family.

There’s more:

“Labour has taken action and through the new equalities legislation employers will be banned from having secrecy clauses. Employers will also be able to take positive action to allow them to diversify their workforce.”

Nooooo! Positive descrimination is bad! You can’t descriminate against men just to get more women into a workplace!

Argh! Karen Bruce looks to be a staunch supporter of Harriet Harperson…possibly the most terrifying, dangerous woman in politics today. Her closing sentence:

“Next Thursday I’ll be casting my vote to keep Harriet and her colleagues in a position where they can keep up the good work already done for women, there’s a lot more to do and only the Labour Party will do it!”

Good work? I would disagree.

Being ridiculously undecided on this, Election Day, I thought I’d Google my constituency to a) find out who all the candidates are and b) find out more about them. Check out the results:

Alec Shelbrooke, the Conservative candidate, is dominating the SERPS with a nice keyword domain and optimised title tag. The Liberal Democrats come in a few places down, again using a keyword domain to boost their rankings. The Labour candidate doesn’t even feature so I guess he’s out. Karen Bruce is an activist however and she eschews the tactics of rival parties, not bothering with a relevant domain and using keywords at the end of her title tag.

According to Google, Alec Shelbrooke is the most relevant candidate in my area!

So it’s election day tomorrow, I’ve got my polling card after registering just in time, and I have no idea who to vote for. It’s basically between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, but even watching the leadership debates didn’t help me decide.

I keep thinking, can I in all conscious make this man Chancellor?

What a surprise…I’ve just Googled George Osborne and he’s heir to a baronetcy. What is it with Conservative politicians being landed/titled or married to landed/titled folk? I’ve got nothing against them per se, but do they really understand what life is like for normal people?

Should I vote Lib Dem because they’ll give me £10k tax free? Maybe I should just flip a coin.