h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today is election day in Scotland. Elections are being held for the Scottish Parliament and (apparently) Local Councils.

And I can't vote because the f**kers who deal with these things "failed" to supply our flat with our voter cards, including the location of the actual polling station.

So I can't vote without bringing proof of ID (or my council tax number or something) with me and then arguing with a no-doubt stupid desk-monkey who probably won't even find me on the electoral register.

I'm very angry. I'm a strong believer in Scottish self-government and was very enthusiastic about the referendum to restore the Parliament in 1997. I even got a supporter of centralisation to vote for it .

Now, as well as some of the press rubbishing our hard-won semi-soverignty and the constant attacks it comes under from the pro-centralisation Conservatives, I can't even vote to affect it's make-up. And thanks to the s**tty weather today many Scots won't even bother to vote.

Of course, we'll almost certainly get a Labour government, or possibly another Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition, but that's not the point. It's still a young parliament, it may well be a proper National one one day and every election for it is important.

And on a day when so many Scots who recieved polling cards will "stay at home" because "they're all the same", I can't even exercise my democratic right.