EU elections? I’ll pass

I cannot support the Brexit Party, though I respect it’s aim: leaving the EU without a deal can, in my eyes, be no good thing.

In our February Brexit Special Issue, I wrote that I (along with the rest of the nation) was glad this trouble would soon all be over. How naive I was.

While most politicos will be rushing to the polling booths tomorrow to scribble their X in a box for the EU elections, I will be staying at home, or, at most, heading to the pub!

Unlike William Parker, I cannot support the Brexit Party, though I respect it’s aim: leaving the EU without a deal can, in my eyes, be no good thing, considering our country makes nothing and is riddled by enormous levels of debt.

Add to this an association with ‘Tommy Robinson’ and childish YouTube ‘personalities’ and you have my reason for not supporting UKIP.

Likewise, I could not back a party which is pushing for a second referendum for I fear the damage this would do to our already fractured political system. The vote has already taken place, and politicians ought to respect this fact.

As for the two ‘main’ parties, how could anybody lower themselves to voting for these? Even the most loyal of tribal voters I have been talking to recently have said they are choosing to abstain due to the dire state of these spent bodies. While I feel sorry for Prime Minister Theresa May for having to bear the responsibilities of former PM David Cameron’s ludicrous decision to have a referendum, she, and the whole Conservative Party, presents nothing worth voting for. Labour, too, does little to impress me. At a recent hustings debate, a Labour MEP candidate for the West Midlands talked of how she and her party hope to unite the country, regardless of Leave and Remain, yet, in one sentence, mentioned both Farage’s allegedly ‘far right’ Brexit Party (and, as an extension, ‘Leave’ voters) and the recent massacre in New Zealand. Such incredible snobbery and ignorance.

Alas! I won’t be voting. For those of you who obsess about fulfilling your civic duty and entering the polling booth, I suggest you mark a large, imposing cross across your paper. Refusing to vote at all is, however, enough of a protest for me; why should I waste my energy?

All this being said, I must admit that I am excited to see the Brexit Party do well in the elections, as they are bound to do. This will, at the very least, give the establishment – which, we must not forget, got us into this mess in the first place – a good kicking.