It is our job to vote for the least worst canidate. To quote Winston Churchill, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

Now here one can live quite happily by ignoring politics and shoving blank ballot papers into the box. But if that is not in your nature and you don't like politics as it currently stands then here at least you are free to work to change it and enter politics yourself if you wish to. Now I would like politics in this country to be of a higher standard than it currently is, but I'm afraid my personal wishes have little or no effect on what actually happens. It would appear my magic powers are currently inactive, so I refuse to make myself upset over this fact.

I am wary of tarring all politicians with the same brush. Politicians often make appeals to emotion rather than reason and I have noticed that many people want to vote for whoever appeals to them on an emotional level but are reasonable enough to feel guilty about ignoring the real issues. I think many people put effort into convincing themselves that all politicians are equally bad so they can vote based on emotion without feeling guilt.