This week I felt myself falling into the abyss of voting just because my parents are hassling me to vote - but then two young(ish) ladies saved me.
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The first was overeater not-so-anonymous Geri Halliwell. Her cameo, serving tea but not cake to pensioners in New Labour's party political broadcast, gave me yet another reason not to vote for them.
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You see, my boyfriend and I have made eating all the pies our latest crusade. Only the other evening we managed a double half-pounder cheeseburger and a mint chocolate Cornetto between us during the 10-minute walk from my house to the pub for an after-dinner 'two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please'.
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Bridget Jones couldn't count high enough to log that number of calories, so given that we now can't kiss anymore without our stomachs affectionately rubbing first, how could I possibly vote for a party that has skinny icon number one as its celebrity attraction? It would be utterly against my principles.
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One person not put off Labour by Ms Halliwell's starved-of-food-and-any-political-importance TV appearance was Eleanor Harte, the lovely fresh-faced 'first time voter' of the Guardian newspaper's panel. My antithesis, smiling into the camera on a sunny day with her natural coloured hair and absence of make-up, listed her voting intentions as Labour. 'But I am not a big supporter of any of the parties.'
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And I thought I was the uninterested one? No doubt Eleanor Harte will get a round of applause for being responsible and involved by marking her ballot paper on polling day, while I get relegated to 'lazy' status for not doing so. It doesn't seem fair at all. Surely it's more apathetic and lazy to vote for a party you don't really support just because you feel you ought to, than it is to refuse to vote with very good reason?
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If I start doing lots of yoga, maybe people will be more likely to believe that I can be bothered to get out of bed. It's just that I want more from my vote on election day than a sticker that says I have cast it.
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