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So, I voted in the local council elections on Thursday. Not sure why, really. Thanks to the (sometimes tiresome) ubiquity of Radio 4 in our household, I feel fairly well-informed about national politics. However, I find that the more overtly political the program or participants, the further I'm pushed into political apathy.
Local elections are even more uninspiring because I don't know or care much about the issues, local politics and journalism being like their national equivalents only worse in every way. Indeed, I'm not entirely clear what it is that our local councilors actually do and their advertising doesn't make it clearer, divided as it is between the trivial and apolitical (changes to recycling schedules or road layouts) and the entirely ineffectual (support for Kyoto, opposition to the Iraq war). So in the end I voted based on a combination of national issues and prejudice, much like most of the other voters, I suspect.
Local elections are even more uninspiring because I don't know or care much about the issues, local politics and journalism being like their national equivalents only worse in every way. Indeed, I'm not entirely clear what it is that our local councilors actually do and their advertising doesn't make it clearer, divided as it is between the trivial and apolitical (changes to recycling schedules or road layouts) and the entirely ineffectual (support for Kyoto, opposition to the Iraq war). So in the end I voted based on a combination of national issues and prejudice, much like most of the other voters, I suspect.
