How to get voters to vote.....

Lovely Hazel Blears, who my fellow bloggers refer to as the chipmunk, has come up with a simply spiffing idea to get the turnout in elections up.

How?

Voters in council elections could be rewarded with tickets for prize draws or given stickers, the Government has proposed. Hazel Blears, the Local Government secretary, has published plans for increasing public engagement with councils.

Stickers? Is she pulling my plonker?

Stickers are what we give to kids to reward them for simple things like being good and not killing the cat.

What we're seeing here is yet more evidence of the contempt that politicians of all parties hold us in. Perhaps the reason the turnout is so low is because the people on the ballot paper are a bunch of useless shits that aren't worth voting for?

Chipmunk, sod off.