We’re hearing a lot these days about the utopia we can expect after the election and about ‘transparency’ in government with regard to all things affecting us, the public. Both main parties are trying to outdo the other by promising everything to everybody.

Before you swallow this ask yourself two questions:

How many promises made before the last election (or any election) have been fulfilled after the election? How transparent was the secret backdated vote (only revealed by the newspapers) to siphon €500 every week out of our taxes to cushion the privileged few from the recession and price rises that the very ones they took the money from are left to face?

As long as we continue to vote on the principle that one is slightly less bad than the other, then that is all we can ever expect for the future.

Only Alternattiva Demokratika has given us the good and the bad, what they will and won’t do – clear and concise. OK you say, are they going to be any different once elected? Well we’ll never know unless we give them the chance to prove it. So let’s do so and if they fail we will be no worse off than before – but we’ll know. And they can never float the same boat again and perhaps at least it will take some of the arrogant complacency out of the other two parties.

As for me, their pre-election manifesto sounds more realistic, honest and courageous than the policies of the other two parties.

Oh, and while I’m about it: Let it be known that because I vote for anyone does not mean I give my mandate to contribute towards €500 per week pocket money (in addition to wages and expenses) for that person and his or her chosen few, even if they tell me about it!

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