Vote here worth more than in Britain

AS a British citizen of Irish descent I’m looking forward to exercising my right for the first time to have a (small) say in who goes to the Dáil.

Since coming to live in Ireland in 2005 I’ve felt encouraged by a broader and fairer political system than the stark and socially divisive one I feel to be the dirty hallmark of politics in Britain.

After voting in four general elections in England I see that essentially British politics can be boiled down to this us-or-them model: