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It’s not a surprise that Britain is finally going to the polls to vote for a new Government. Commentators have been saying for several days that today, Tuesday, April 6th, British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown would announce the election.

They were right because Brown went to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament so an election can be called. This is a largely ceremonial act but still, it is the first public move in the process.

The meeting took place at 10am today and then Gordon Brown went straight back to Downing Street. His Cabinet assembled outside Number Ten and then he came out and formally announced the election will take place on Thursday, May 6th.

Immediately, the BBC cancelled its BBC1 programmes to show a politics special about the election talking to all the usual suspects who said all the usual things. When they couldn’t find anybody else to interview, the BBC political correspondents interviewed each other which seems particularly pointless as they didn’t have anything new to say either.

Oh joy! We have four weeks of campaigning to live through and then we’ve got to choose. It might just come down to the party who annoys us least in that time.

Seriously, though, it is a big decision because of the times we live in. We mustn’t let the media coverage or the political spin from the different parties to put us off voting. People fought and died to give us the right to choose our own government.