And soon they'll get rid of voting altogether...

As our unelected Prime Minister of a Government crammed with unelected appointees lobbies to get Tony Blair into the unelected President's gig in the European Empire that we weren't allowed to vote on...

...comes news that they are now planning to make it far more difficult for us to vote on anything here in Britain.

The Times reports that, under the guise of "cutting costs", there are plans on the table which would see:

- thousands of polling stations closed
- voting hours reduced
- replacing polling cards with e-mail requests
- increasing candidates’ deposits
- reducing security at election counts

And so democracy dies by a thousand cuts. Not that any of them seem to like the inconvenience of having to get elected anyway. That's part of the democratic process so often conveniently overlooked these days.

We really are treated with contempt. But hey - they've told you you are an A* student even though you can't add up or spell the most basic of words so quit worrying and make sure to vote for your favourites on X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing.

Every single day, just reading the mainstream press, things become more unbelievable. Really.

We hope Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't mind, but it puts us in mind of a song from Evita:

• (Che:)
  How annoying that they have to fight elections for their cause
  The inconvenience, having to get a majority
  If normal methods of persuasion fail to win them applause
  There are other ways of establishing authority
  
  (All:)
  A new Argentina, the chains of the masses untied
  A new Argentina, the voice of the people
  Cannot be, and will not be, and must not be denied.