Apparently there is an election coming ... there are lots of signs up all over the place, assailing our eyes with their visual pollution.  And the polliticians have gone into high gear dri ving around, door knocking and tearing strips off each other like a pack of rabid dogs.

The sad thing about it is that this year especially there really doesn't seem to be much point.

The truth of the matter is that for the next five or more years the things that will probably impact the lives of kiwis the most are Global Warming and the Global Recession.  The telling point here is Global ... in reality, which party is in government over this period is actually going to be largely irrelevant.

It is a bit of shame for poor old John Key that the first election he fights in will be one in which it really won't matter if he wins or not.