Matt’s Blog

Every day on my way to work I pass by a school and if I’m unlucky/disorganised enough then I get there just as the thousands of parents drop off their child in their 4×4. The school is situated right on a junction and the parents’ cars just get parked everywhere. I take extreme care driving past, so worried that some small child could dart out from between two cars, it all seems so unresponsible to me.

So I started thinking of some “creative” solutions to this problem… Perhaps they could stagger the start times for each class so that there wouldn’t be so many parents turning up at one time? Or perhaps there could be an incentive for parents that car share, like their children get to be in a class with less pupils?

But then I realised, there is a much better solution here. Why not have forced boarding school for all children Monday to Friday? This surely makes a lot of sense? Traffic would be reduced enormously, parents could go out to work, schools could give kids a healthier lifestyle by controling what the children eat/do after school, you know it all makes sense!

If I vote Labour in this year’s General Election, am I voting for Tony Blair, or Gordon Brown? I’m strongly of the opinion that should Labour win the election then it will only be a matter of months before we start hearing more and more about the Blair/Brown rift again and there will become more and more pressure for Blair to stand down… And if not then I’m sure a leadership challenge will take place forcing Blair out of office. I’d be amazed if Tony Blair is still in No. 10 at the end of 2006. So really, a Labour vote is a vote for Gordon Brown isn’t it? I’m not sure if that makes me more or less likely to vote for them.

I still have no idea who I will vote for, I’m a classic floating voter at this moment in time… Every day I change my mind. I hate all the lies that they all put through my letter box, they are all as bad as each other. I think the Lib Dems have the best policies relating to technology, best views on software patents etc. But I’m not sure that I could vote based on that one issue alone and I’m just not really convinced that they would make a good job of running the economy. I doubt I’ll vote for the Conservatives, they just don’t seem trustworthy at all to me… So am I going to be left with only Labour to vote for? Maybe I just don’t like change.

One thing is for sure, I wont vote for the Greens… Doubt they would approve of all the computers running 24 hours a day at home - would get taxed to oblivion!