This was quite political in its day, until we realised we haven’t moved on as far as we would like to think

It’s tempting, here, to make a joke about it being a new voting system where you can vote for one of our new parties that wants to return to better times. There are currently  393 parties registered with the Electoral Commission in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. These include 15 parties with MPs in Parliament. Twelve of them have eight members or less, with five of them having only one MP. As you go down through the levels we eventually arrive at the parties that are registered but have no members in any elected position.

These include Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (Opposing Capitalism and Stalinism), British First Party (against non-white immigration, abortion, communism, foreign aid and homosexuality) and the Cornish Nationalist Party, which wants Cornish devolution and pan-Celtism.

These are just three of our many choices. It surprises me that there are actually 79 such parties, the final two being the Yorkshire Party and the Yoruba Party.

It’s quite a range of lunacy and lost causes.

However, that wasn’t the road I meant to take. I was going to point out that I just had a tour through some other posts I published on this day in different years – ones about Julia’s neck injury and me being in hospital. Neither were things I really wanted to revisit, so I stopped reading.

There is a reblog button, which tempted me, but pressing it doesn’t seem to reblog anything, so it’s not the easy way of catching up I though it might be. I will try it again later and see if it saves me writing another post, as I am close to missing deadlines now.