Surely you could be "Excllr" - to be pronounced "Excelsior". Meaning "I will do better..."

At least with local elections it's often possible to split your vote, and vote for one candidate of a party and against the others.

I don't much like the idea of a Presidential election, but I wish there was a way people could vote to kick Blair out, while ensuring that we wouldn't have a Tory government (I mean an official Tory government). I'm not sure what the reverse of a "landslide" is, but whatever it is, on a personal vote that's what I'd expect Blair to be given.

It beats me why the Tories haven't twigged the fact that they can't outflank New Labour on the right without coming across as some kind of transatlantic crazies. Go back to the more traditional pre-Thatcherite Toryism, and they'd be neatly placed to the Left of New Labour, and they could start to come back to life.