Billy is resurrecting his Tactical Voting website.

I used to tear myself to pieces in trying to convince people that there is only so much that one person's vote could achieve with first-past-the-post, in that voting for your favourite party's candidate would more often than not be a wasted vote in they didn't have a realistic chance of overtaking the MP.

I'd perhaps be trying to convince that by helping UKIP, the core support of the Tories could be fractioned in the way that the Lib Dem/Labour/Green support is.


But would any of these parties ever be able to do anything to stop international companies from making redundant thousands of people, just for a financial quick-fix?

George Mombiot's interview on Newsnight in early 2003 gave me a much more fundamental insight on what has to happen on a far more radical scale for the world be one peaceful, embraced and loving planet, rather than just a change of a few G8 governments.

That's not to say I don't still admire the musician who persuaded me to try (and inevitably fail!) to be a protest-songwriter, for his energy and wit, as much as his sentiments.