What depresses me most about Blair

[Aliantha]

Believe me, my toes are already curled. Local politics is an interesting little dog fight at the best of times. At the worst, it's just downright nasty. I think the structure of our political system here is good though, in that it allows those people who want to be involved to voice their opinions or even create their own bandwagons. We're comming up to a state election in a couple of weeks and it should be a close race, but I think the labour party might just scrape in if we're lucky. My partner is certainly hoping labour wins our local seat. It'll affect his business adversely if they don't. Then again, the other side have done a decent job recently too, so it wouldn't be so bad. It's just the bloody principal of it.