Vote Early, Vote Often
Lots of readers have been in touch to ask for our views on the general election.
Action 4 Equality Scotland is an non-party organisation - strictly neutral when it comes to party politics - so we won't be telling anyone how to place their vote.
But on a personal note - I hope our readers will go out and use their votes - for whichever candidate or party that best reflects your views.
Because it would be a sad day if the public fury over the MPs' expenses scandal - or the bad behaviour of individual politicians - made people so fed up that they just stayed at home.
So, think again Mrs Duffy of Rochdale - and anyone else of similar mind - don't let the buggers get you down (see post dated 29 April - "He's Not As Nice As He Looks").
It's true that many politicians do view the general public as useful idiots - as cannon fodder to propel them into power - who can be safely ignored once the election is out of the way.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
After all our MPs were finally rumbled over their expenses, by a mixture of determined work by FOI campaigners and newspaper journalists, for which The Telegraph newspaper deserves a special mention.
The truth came out despite the best efforts of the political establishment to cover things up - and the momentum for change has now built up a real head of steam - whatever the outcome of the election.
Multi-party politics is the big winner of the 2010 election campaign - and voting reform is firmly on the agenda for Westminster as never before - a more representative democracy would be a good thing for politics, as the Scottish Parliament has shown.
Because voting reform at Westminster politicians would mean that UK politicians would be less arrogant, have less power and less ability to lord it over the rest of us - as they've been doing for so many years.
So, whatever you do - go out and vote on Thursday - and keep doing your best to hold our politicians to account.
Action 4 Equality Scotland is an non-party organisation - strictly neutral when it comes to party politics - so we won't be telling anyone how to place their vote.
But on a personal note - I hope our readers will go out and use their votes - for whichever candidate or party that best reflects your views.
Because it would be a sad day if the public fury over the MPs' expenses scandal - or the bad behaviour of individual politicians - made people so fed up that they just stayed at home.
So, think again Mrs Duffy of Rochdale - and anyone else of similar mind - don't let the buggers get you down (see post dated 29 April - "He's Not As Nice As He Looks").
It's true that many politicians do view the general public as useful idiots - as cannon fodder to propel them into power - who can be safely ignored once the election is out of the way.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
After all our MPs were finally rumbled over their expenses, by a mixture of determined work by FOI campaigners and newspaper journalists, for which The Telegraph newspaper deserves a special mention.
The truth came out despite the best efforts of the political establishment to cover things up - and the momentum for change has now built up a real head of steam - whatever the outcome of the election.
Multi-party politics is the big winner of the 2010 election campaign - and voting reform is firmly on the agenda for Westminster as never before - a more representative democracy would be a good thing for politics, as the Scottish Parliament has shown.
Because voting reform at Westminster politicians would mean that UK politicians would be less arrogant, have less power and less ability to lord it over the rest of us - as they've been doing for so many years.
So, whatever you do - go out and vote on Thursday - and keep doing your best to hold our politicians to account.
