BLiar is, as I type, at Buckingham Palace, seeking the dissolution of Parliament. The British General Election will be held on Thursday, May 5th. Like many people, I've thought about the forthcoming election a lot recently.

I didn't vote in the European elections last year because I didn't feel I could allow any of the parties to infer my support. I'm traditionally a Tory voter, and I'll always remember the debt of gratitude that the British people owe to the Conservative Party for the transformation they brought about in the United Kingdom's fortunes in the 1980s, but their support for BLiar's criminal warmongering in recent years had left me unable to offer them my electoral support. I'm sure many readers will remember that the leadership of the Conservative Party was gagging for war two years ago, couldn't wait to watch bits of Iraq blowing up on the news. It's worth bearing in mind, of course, that they offered support for Phony Tony's historic crime on the basis of intelligence information and legal advice which now appear to have been perverted in the interest of the government's own twisted agenda - but then again, most of us, of course, never fell for that in the first place.

The Lib Dems? A creditable position on Iraq, but otherwise hopeless. They want a local income tax, more welfare giveaways, to punish the wealthy to fund more public spending. There is a faint but unmistakable malodorous whiff of Old Labour about them, a watered down version of the socialist nonsense which made such a wretched mess of our country in the '60s and '70s. Their leader, Charles Kennedy, is an amateur, an embarrassment; cheap, shallow opportunism is his preferred strategy, and he doesn't even do that particularly well. I can't believe that someone of that inferior calibre would be able to aspire to the level of junior minister in either of the two main parties. None of the fringe, single-issue parties appeals to me either.

So normally, I wouldn't feel able to vote. But I've become so sickened, so deeply nauseated by the conduct of New Labour in government recently that I now feel that it's the duty of voters of good conscience to support the party best placed to remove our despicable, dishonourable Prime Minister from power.

I'm disgusted by his deceptions, his all-excusing, sanctimonious, irrational beliefs, his utter lack of principle or judgement, his self-righteous self-dramatisations, his exaggerrated terrors to justify his contempt for the freedoms we have taken for granted for generations. I'm sick of his loathsome cowardice, of seeing him hide behind someone else when he's attacked. And like so many others, I'm sick of the needless, disastrous, bloody, criminal war in Iraq which he cynically and dishonestly manipulated his country into; and especially sick of the United Kingdom's present demeaning role as subservient, obedient poodle of the United States.
 
BLiar himself once pointed out that law and order depends on people who break the rules being punished - and in an ideal world, he'd be facing a war crimes tribunal, or at the very least, criminal charges for distorting the intelligence assessments available to him in order to deceive the public and Parliament. But if that's too much to hope for, the very least we can do is remove him from office by electoral means. Only the Conservative Party can beat BLiar, so, despite my reservations, that's who I'll be voting for this time. I don't think they'll win, but we must try.