It was fantastic today, I was rehearsing a show with a very multi cultural cast and two were Iraqis wiwth purple fingers, who had voted in Manchester. Extraordinary, a real feeling of history being made, of optimism and courage.Sneerers, keep sneering if you want, but you have been sidelined by a genuinely popular and very moving event. Who knows what the futiure will bring, but lets salute some really brave people, who risked being murdered(and many people were) to exercise the right to vote.