VALET! (the election)

"Hur går valet? :D"

How is the election going? asks my mocking sister with a smiley face. I'm starting to suspect that she finds my easily fueled enthusiasm amusing! It is though, I'm seriously excited. Last year I watched the Swedish election with popcorn til midnight. I may have cried a little when the social democrats and the greens won. It was just so glorious. 

Gustav Fridolin, the Green arrow of Swedish politics!

Anyway! Now in may it's the British elections. Even if its not quite as close to my heart I bet it will be, it will after all affect me way more in real life. I even did a test to see how I should vote and my closest match was the Greens, then the Scottish national party and then Sinn fein which I had to google and is apparently an Irish left party. So far so good.

I don't know why really..is it fear of being criticised or judged?..or just tradition?. but people are never very keen on sharing what they will vote for. Maybe it is that it divides people in such a clear way? Like when I was sitting on a bench with my friend watching our kids play and I said SNP has some good ideas and she gave me a look as if I had just said "I keep your grand parents in my cellar" and said..."well...i suppose that's SOME peoples cup of tea.".  Now I wonder if social welfare isn't her cup of tea. And what kind of tea does she drink?

But either way, here is my voting list!

It's a short list, it's green and labour, partly cause I can't vote for someone who's face annoys me and partly because I'm not PURE EVIL. And partly because there is no left party in England. If there was that's where I'd be but there isn't. So that starts me off on the semi-leftist candidate!

Labour. 

Firstly, everyone has to check this out: Ed Milibands teen fanclub :D

Ok now I can continue. Thing is, here in England you vote for people not parties (takes some getting used to) so I cant actually vote for Ed Miliband anyway, I can only vote for this guy:

So exciting after all that blue and purple trash I've been getting lately!

That is seriously the nicest face I've gotten on a political leaflet this year! If I voted with my eyes, I'd vote labour. But I wont. There's nothing wrong with labour, I'm just not...a labour person. Labour is the English equivalent of Sweden's social democrats after all..and I am, how ever good and even tempered that is, just not a university educated middle class young rebel who would like to make a difference but not so much as to ruin the chances of one day buying a house for my 2.5 kids and settle down. That's a labour person. He is cute though, you know..comparatively! But he is also working in a bank and grew up in conservative Maidstone and lives in South London..iish, you would need at least 3 nurse wifes to balance that out..!

Green.

After being slightly seduced by the mili-fans and so on I decided to check out the green party online because apparently Maidstone isn't interested in you know, nature, enough to get leaflets. I though, if there is a bald middleaged man on their front page leaning forward I'm voting labour! But there isn't. Her name is Hanna and of course I'll be voting green. I'm not for voting "tactically" because I want to be better then that even if I make no difference in this system anyway. Actually that makes me vote un-tactically even more! You should vote for someone who would understand you and this is my closest match..just like I knew it would be.

In a way I think one should choose these things with a mixture of back ground and personal preference. If we made a difference that it. I strongly believe that voting has become a spectacle, even more so here then in my native Scandinavia..and whatever you vote for, the one with the most money will win.

 But it is a fun spectacle. 

Ps. I just found out Vänsterpartiets Jonas Sjöstedt has a blog! just gonna put that here for any swedish speakers in the room...