Not the most earth-shattering event of the moment, but …. it’s an election with its own twists and turns, not least the late withdrawal of the candidate from one of the governing parties (and the only male).
At least one of the candidates has impressive football skills (and I’m not talking about the former footballer who dropped out).
Anybody who can control a ball like that in those clothes and shoes deserves at the very least a post in the cabinet!.
Indeed. But no abroad/absentee voting in Ireland so I’m SOL in the UK.
Between 2015 and 2017, I voted in Bray, Ireland (if no Sinn Fein then Fine Gael), voted in the UK for Labour with Corbyn -v- Cameron (yes, I know they’re just the likely PMs), against Brexit, for Corbyn again -v- May, then absentee for Hilary. Not a good record till I helped Green win against an incumbent Tory in Dorset.
It doesn’t look as though the election is setting the country on fire:
Both candidates sound very different from each other. When I read about them, they do present clear differences. It does say something about the voters if they’re not so enthused. But my country is like that too.
In Ireland, we’re accustomed to elections in which a variety of candidates, representing a variety of positions, are presented, and voters then rank them by preference. An election with only two candidates seems bizarrely reductive. The last time such a think occurred was in 1973, which means that most voters have never experienced one.
And the keepy-uppy champion wins it:
Wiiii!