Pointless

The polls have now closed in the UK for the unnecessary European elections. We shouldn't have been forced to take part but since our elected national leaders are so incompetent or self-serving, the UK is still part of the EU and by law we have to take part.

In our national and local votes, the results start rolling in through the wee small hours however other European member states will be voting over the weekend, so our results won't be announced until after 10pm Sunday. Another major difference is we normally use the 'first past the post' system, ie the person with the most votes wins. In the European vote, we have a form of proportional representation, so the vote is more for a party and the candidates they have put forward for a particular region.

This whole farce will have cost UK taxpayer millions and those we elect as MEP's might possibly never get to sit in the EU parliament should the UK finally get round to leaving.

Anyway on my way to vote, I had the opportunity to snap this awesome sunset. Red sky at night and all that...