In a previous post I said I was going to vote SNP.

Then I heard the SNP were going to declare a right to chain Scotland to the least government in the world and make voting pointless.

Then I remembered we had a list system and I could put the parties on a list from first to last. So, I carefully researched the various parties working out an order which would put pro-Palestinian parties first. I finally decided to put SSP first, an Independent Green next, some independents who seemed likely to be pro-Palestine, a few other parties that were pro-Palestine and then just in case Reform.

Having carefully worked out the order to place them, I arrived at the polling station to be told that the SNP had changed the voting system so I only had one vote. That would have caused me to vote in a very different way … one I had not researched … so all my planning to vote to support smaller parties went out the window. I had to vote for a party with a chance of getting a seat. Labour was voting for the most evil PM we’ve ever had. I’ve still not forgiven the Lib Dems for their contemptuous behaviour after we voted to leave the EU – and there was nothing about the local candidate on Palestine. I promised myself that I would never vote Tory again following their appalling behaviour during covid and Brexit. And, I had no idea of the chances of the SSP … which meant I was likely throwing my vote away on a party that I had nothing in common with except they are against the genocide of Palestinians.

The only choice I had was “old contempt” or “new change” … and with the Greens trumpeting their noxious anti-family policies and generally reminding me how much I loathed the current party, and the SNP having made me extremely angry by changing the voting system and just generally being obnoxious, I wasn’t voting for them. So, despite my promise to my self to vote pro-Palestine, the only party left on my list with a good chance of getting a seat was Reform.

I had actually thought I might just vote “non of the above” … until I first remembered there was a list system, and then discovered there was not … and I was so angry I just forgot about that option.

It did help that I saw two reform candidates had supported Palestine … though the leadership’s sucking up to the genociders was still hard to swallow. But rather angrily, because it wasn’t what I planned to do and didn’t have time to think it through,  I hastily voted Reform.

Climate

Note: I didn’t even consider climate as an issue. The reason is the moronic politicians no longer have any option but to bow before the reality of the situation. They can huff and puff all they like, but they ain’t going any further with nut zero. So, why should I care what the policy of the idiots in power is on that subject, when it can’t affect the outcome any longer?