When Gordon Brown cancelled all that third world debt, that one act by itself made it worth voting Labour for all those years. And I walked away feeling 10-foot tall knowing that she'd put it in a nutshell. Millions of people that we will never meet had their lives radically improved because we voted Labour in 1997. Well there will be a new House of Commons next week whether people deign to vote or not. We have some influence on who'll be charged with helping those more vulnerable than ourselves and yet thousands of voters are pretending that they are somehow above the whole thing.
Voting involves humility.
Yes there are individual policies or events that have made many of us cringe during the past four years. I did this pitch to one undecided voter parking his bike outside his house. If you'd abolished VAT on cycle helmets altogether, I might have voted for you. And then he gave me a wink that said he was voting Labour and went inside.