Ain't democracy great?

I guess I'm still interested in the political process as I did actually

vote in yesterdays council elections. I even spent far too much of the

early morning watching the results come in on TV.My cynical side does occasionally make me wonder if our right

to vote actually gives us a real choice. My borough actually had a

reasonably high turnout (around 53%, pretty good for a council

election) but the radio is full of discussion about how people a

disillusioned by the whole process and this is the reason for falling

voter turnout. Now every election I've ever stood for I've always had

a guy called R.O.N. to beat. This does at least focus your attention

on having a platform people can semi-agree with before they vote for

you, perhaps having R.O.N. stand in the real elections would do the

same for our politicians?