pick and mix

I don't particularly like large-scale quotes in blogs (apart from the odd phrase or several of film dialogue) as I would generally like to be able to generate my own forms of words to illustrate my thinks. However, on election days the following usually crops up head-wise at some point:

"The major problem - one of the major problems - for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it. Or, rather, of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarise: it is a well-known and much lamented fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should, on no account, be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem." - Douglas Adams

A couple of Weekends ago the newspaper had a sidebar on a spread concerning the current thievery-debate which mentioned the process of standing for election (though as a normal Westminster MP rather than as a MEP, MSP, MWA or MotNIA which are bound to involve different processes), technically relatively simple but rather more complicated (or, at least, rather tiresome-sounding) if you wanted the slightest chance of gathering any votes whatsoever.

I'd hope that the latest round of in-the-news-for-bad-reasons current politics has engaged people who might otherwise be apathetic rather than apatheticised people who would normally vote, particularly when there were at least four you've-got-to-be-fucking-kidding options on the ballot paper (including one whose manifesto turned out to be even worse than I imagined) whose deranged fanbase are possibly likely to vote for their chosen evil whatever the political weather as opposed to the relatively rational and their choice of vaguely sensible-option candidate-people (whose manifestos are at least partly based in the real world).

It took me less than a minute to cross the road, enter the building, find the correct side of the room to enter, get my name checked, get my paper, cross it and exit, though there was no queue to wait in. Much quicker than the forty minutes it took to give blood on the way home. It'd probably take far longer to vote online but it would be nice to have the option , particularly when the ballot paper was twenty inches long and represents quite a significant use of paper.