I was quite distraught being denied to vote in this years UK General Election.  The criteria for an overseas voter is that your overseas voting application must be countersigned by another British person living anywhere overseas….but not someone in the UK.  I’m not sure who made this rule up but it seems a tad idiotic to me, I don’t really know many British people in Canada and if I had posted it to the US it really wouldn’t have made it back to the UK in time.  Maybe there is some good reason for the rule but just can’t see it.

I have to admit I did feel a bit better when I saw that loads of other people were denied a vote from within the UK because polling stations couldn’t cope with the numbers, see FAQ on the BBC’s website.  They seem to be in a bit of a pickle and there is a petition to mend the voting system here.  At least I am not alone in all this mess!

Not quite sure what to make of the results of the election, it would certainly be interesting to see the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form a coalition, since they have opposing views on many subjects I wonder how they would deal with that?  Would it be good for the country for them each side to be challenged by a different point of view? I might be more pleased about a Labour and Conservative Coalition but really I would be pleased if Gordon Brown would go, I am not keen on him at all.

I am more ecstatic and relieved that the BNP got nowhere in this election, despite getting more votes they didn’t win any seats [see BBC], and this just proves there is no place for hate in UK today, this is in a very small minority.  Recently there were quite a few horror stories regarding the BNP including one of the their candidates beating up members of the public [see BBC] and another one sending an abusive email to an LGBT group [see Pink Paper].