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So I don’t know about you, but I’ve already received my polling card.  Quite excited about it. Let’s face it, this is just about the most important invite you’re going to get in quite a while. Five years, minimum. Unless you didn’t register to be an elector. In which case, if you register in five weeks from now, you can get back on the list but depending on whether your constituency is being contested…

But anyway, was listening to Radiohead’s No Surprises a couple of days ago, and someone I know was saying how apt the song was to the current election vibe. So I looked up what Thom Yorke had to say in the song… 

“A heart that’s full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won’t heal

You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don’t, they don’t speak for us
I’ll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

Halfway through the music video the glass bowl Thom Yorke's in started to get filled with water until it goes over his head.

This is my final fit, my final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)”

By the way, this was how late we stayed in the office on Labour Day morning. Yeah, still have to do labour (haha, okay bad joke – although not as bad as the one about the mothers giving birth on 1 May. Now that’s really Labour Day…)

And here’s a shot of our election board – and who’s keeping track of who…

Less than a week to go…!