Brexit negotiations will shape my vote... but this doesn't mean that I am happy.

They say a week is a long time in politics but it is feeling like a lifetime at the moment. Politics hasn't let up since the last election in the UK. We went straight from that into Brexit, the last 9 months have been spent debating speculation and now we are into another General Election and it feels like this is going on forever.

I dislike much of what I'm hearing from all parties, the Lib Dems are a non-entity that fail to recognise democracy at work and have a leader with a very sticky moral position. He is a man that is quite willing to sacrifice his own religious beliefs for political reasons and whilst I don't agree with his religious take on gay sex or abortion, I would have a smidgen more respect for him if he showed some backbone and stood by his religious beliefs rather than showing himself to be a man of suspect values that can change with the wind. Belief is a powerful thing that goes someway towards honesty, if you are not honest about your beliefs, how can you be honest about other things? I don't trust him.

I do like Jeremy Corbyn but his party is a mess. There is something so amateurish about their presentation and the people they have in positions of potential power that I can't vote for them. I can't vote for Diane Abbott and many of his shadow cabinet can't even bring themselves to mention his name so they praise the manifesto rather than him. It is a party in disarray and to a certain degree, it is a shame as he is a decent man but there is no unity or cohesion to them and I can't help but feel there is a very fragile peace in place there.

The Conservatives are a difficult one. Yes. I will be voting for them because I think Theresa May is best placed to negotiate Brexit but I am not convinced that their handling of the Country has been particularly good. I drive to work on third World roads. My daughters and my wife have all been misdiagnosed and palmed off by the NHS and I am convinced this could have been avoided with more investment in the right areas. I see drug dealing happening on most street corners, in broad daylight due to the lack of police. The streets are filled with litter and we feel like a country in decline. Despite that, I can honestly say that financially, I am in a good place, the economy has enough hope that customers are still buying and projects that had been on hold are coming live again.

I do worry that fox hunting might be on the table again but the Brexit negotiations will shape my vote in this election but this doesn't mean that I am happy. 

I expect the Conservatives will win the election, Labour, rather than uniting behind a leader, will oust Corbyn and elect another Blair type figure (a scary thought). On the plus side, the Lib Dems may disappear and something more worthwhile might take their place. It is inconceivable that the LibDems are so unelectable, they are a party that is meant to sit somewhere between Labour and Conservative but they gave up the middle ground to Blair and have been a party without a message for years. Clegg lacked a backbone and ruined any chance of being taken seriously by backing the increase in student fees. Labour have always ruined the economy and then swept to power after the Conservatives have cleaned up their mess and the cycle starts again. Don't forget that the economy was in a very good place when Blair came to power but he spent money like it was going out of fashion and look what happened...the coffers where bled dry and in 7 years, we are still struggling to recover, yet I still like Corbyn - he is squirming like a fish on a hook as they try to pin him down on Nuclear weapons, being a pacifist etc and all I see is the media attacking him yet in difficult times, he carries himself like a decent man. I think the sharks involved in the EU negotiation for Brexit, would eat him alive. 

I simply have an opinion and a bunch of reasons about where my "x" is going but I am cold to it this time around, I have no passion for it or even much care. It is important that everyone votes but more important, no matter how the vote goes, we all have to shut up and move on with life once it is done, no more taking to the streets to protest democracy or crying because life isn't fair, because it isn't fair. Lower your expectations, and whilst disappointment will become a standard part of your day, you will harden up, you will appreciate the times that you win and you will stop having that sense of entitlement that we all dislike about you.