The election campaign already leaves me cold, because I can imagine no outcome that will make our country better. Three packs of wolves have fallen on our unfortunate fold. Does it matter which way we run?
The fact that it's likely to be close should at least be piquing my interest, but it's not. No party with a chance of forming, or being part of, a government will in any way get the state off our backs No party is dangling the keys of the prison door. We are being graciously asked to choose in which cell to spend the next five years.
If you are lucky enough to have a Libertarian Party candidate in your constituency, please vote for him or her. I harbour no illusions of electoral victory, but your vote will not be wasted. You will help to remind the political class that individual freedom matters.
Failing that chance to light a candle in the cursed darkness, I can only repeat advice I gave many years ago in Warsaw to my elderly Polish teacher. About to vote for the first time in her life, she told me, "I don't know what to do, because they all promise things that sound good." I told her to ignore pretty promises and "choose the candidate you think most likely to do least harm."
Cynical, perhaps, but not a bad approach.
The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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