Such a delight this morning to be listening to the Today programme with no party-politics, an election day tradition much to be cherished. Instead they gave a good wedge of time to Paul McCartney to promote his excellent idea of "meat free Mondays" He pointed out that the meat industry contributes more CO2 to the atmosphere than the entire combined transport systems of the world. I well remember my heyday working in Friends of the Earth back in the 70s, trying to make people understand that having a field and growing crops on it, then feeding those crops to animals which you later eat is far less efficient than having a field, growing crops on it then eating those crops yourself. I'd like to think the estimable knight's words fall on more receptive ears than ours did back then, when we were marginalised as well-weirdos.
Later this afternoon I went to our local polling station to cast my vote. I always go on election days of all kinds, usually to spoil my form, thereby demonstrating to myself, if no one else, that it was not out out of apathy that I didn't vote. On this occasion, however, I voted for the green candidate, showing that as a good anarchist I am prepared to break all the rules, including, on occasion, even my own.
Will there be a hung parliament tomorrow? I hope not, if only because I was chatting to a neighbour about 6 months ago who predicted that exact outcome, while I poured scorn on the idea, confidently forecasting for my own part that the tories would secure a comfortable, or at least working majority by themselves. I have already promised myself to go round and eat humble pie should his prediction come to pass.
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