Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the most pointless British General Election in living memory, and possibly ever.
The two parties were exactly the same, and there was absolutely no doubt which of them was going to win.
Those of us who were then members of one or the other ought to have been sent the bill, rather than expecting the community at large to pay for our weird hobby.
But apparently, an Election was "due"? Why? Why should there mechanically have been, or be, a General Election merely because five years had passed since the last one?
Why should there ever be a General Election unless there is a real difference between the parties, or a realistic possibility of a change of government, or, very preferably, both? What for?
There was certainly nothing that remotely resembled either of those on 5th May 2005.
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