#sp11: On A War Footing

It's just over 50 days until the Scottish Parliament elections on May 5th, so I wanted to clarify a few things that may happen with this blog.

Firstly, I'm well aware that a high number of my readers are not Scottish and are therefore not interested in Scottish elections. In fact, I'm sure I've got some weirdo readers who ARE Scottish but not interested in elections!

So that you can avoid any mention of politics or elections in the next few weeks, I'll be starting any posts mentioning them, like this one, with the twitter hashtag '#sp11'. I'll also be labelling the posts 'Election 2011'.

You may also notice, if you read Suitably Despairing via an RSS reader, that there is some code at the bottom of the post urging you to vote green. I'm not going to apologise for it - as a small party we need to utilise every wee bit of electioneering we can!

If you don't read via RSS and instead visit the site, you may notice some more prominent links to the Scottish Greens website. Again, it's not something I'm going to apologise for.

Apart from voting green in the Regional List portion of the election, I am at the moment entirely open on how I will vote on the Constituency portion. I don't want to influence you, and will look at each party with some fairness (although I'm human - I do have some inherent bias!)

Normal blogposts will continue throughout the election cycle. If you're not interested in the politics there's no need to stop visiting!

Lastly, it'll all be over in a few weeks and we can all go about our daily lives safe in the knowledge that our newly installed Green majority government will be watching out for us.

Actually, that last one is the line I'll be writing for the 2020 elections!