like most sad politicos I am up and watching the 24 hour news channels to see what the result of Super Tuesday is.

I will not go on about why we should care who wins some political battle in the US - I think Iraq has demonstrated that to everyone.

What does interest me about US politics is its cult of personality over party politics and issues. Or where issues are important social issues seem to be far more important than here.

Their politics is very very different to ours. There is far more money, far more elections and far greater voter apathy.

I think this is something that we need to take note of. It can be easy to get carried away with the US personality style elections - but far less people vote! This means at the heart of US politics there is a serious problem. Now my man Obama has reached out to new voters, but this is nowhere near enough to overcome a system which fails to engage vast amounts of its population. This is a warning to us here in Britain. Turnout is often decreasing rather than increasing.

In my own election only 40% of people voted. Mind you this was up from the usual turnout of under 30%. But if we can not get even half of people to cast a vote what state is our democracy in?

OK enough of this - back to the 24 hour news.