General Election IV: The Others

These I have trouble with: the Greens, UKIP, and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. The trouble is that I rather like them.

The Greens bring an entirely new slant to politics by its severance from any meaningful relationship to economics. They can seem laughable but their sincerity is their greatest weapon. I happen not to agree with most of their prescriptions, perhaps having an excessive faith in man's ingenuity. A sort of Green Objectivism might make some mischievous intellectual appeal.

UKIP - a single issue party with dreadful growing pains. A pity because the single issue is  a bigger one than our non-neophyte political class would have us believe.

TUSC - the vehicle for Dave Nellist and his Trotskyist chums. I feel quite nostalgic for their politics. Welcome back lads.

So that's it. And after all that I only get one vote. One last point - what would be so terrible about a minority government followed by a further early election? Cameron can shove his Fixed Term Parliament Act up the proverbial. Nuff said.

Happy voting one and all. Just do vote - you won't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.