Can you believe it’s nearly a month since the General Election campaigning kicked off? I’m not sure where the time has gone, yet it has and now I need to make a decision. I’m a postal voter so I need to tick (or cross – I haven’t read the instructions yet!) a box and get it posted by Friday. But I still don’t know which box to go with.

The biggest question I’ve been asking myself is what do I care about? WWID (‘What Would I Do?’ as opposed to WWMD) if I was the PM? And which party fits best with that?

Sounds straightforward, but then there’s the local element. What if the party I want to win nationally happens to have a mediocre candidate in my area? Do I put national politics before local politics hoping that if the candidate wins they will step up to the mark? Or do I go with local politics even though I don’t agree with quite a bit of their national manifesto?

I have far too many questions in my head that realistically aren’t going to be answered by the time the final leader’s debate is over tomorrow night.

Simply (and I could write a blog post or two on all of these) I’ve outlined the things I care about most:

Education: Overhaul the current bureaucracy, targets and form filling for teachers. Move away from teaching children how to pass exams and give teachers more freedom over how they teach. Stop obsessing over getting 50% into university and take a much broader approach encompassing vocational and academic learning from 16.

Crime: Greater use of Restorative Justice, especially amongst young offenders and petty criminals to reduce reoffending, decrease the risk of them becoming career criminals, rehabilitate them to society. Most importantly this approach also helps the victims recover from the crime, something our current justice system doesn’t address.

Climate Change: No third runway at Heathrow. Reduction in emissions and a focus on increasing awareness of the realities of climate change in our life time, including the measures needed before the next General Election.

Economy: Robin Hood Tax. Make the banks responsible for rectifying the economic mess we are in and take the pressure off cuts in our national services.

Health/NHS: Keep the NHS. I accept money is tight but there has to be a way to pay our NHS nurses more. They do an amazing job and deserve more recognition.

Welfare: Families should be supported regardless of whether they are single parent, gay or straight, unmarried or married. We need to continue to support those who are trying to find work. There needs to be more focus on volunteering for those unemployed for more than a few months. The state should support those genuinely unable to work. There needs to be a tougher approach to those who are unemployed long term for no good reason and have no intention of finding work.

Immigration: We do need to tighten up immigration laws, but most definitely not stop it. There needs to be a sensible approach that benefits everyone, an improvement in the way it is managed. The UK is a brilliant multicultural society and that should be celebrated.

Democracy: Introduction of proportional representation in voting.

War: I just don’t know. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should have never happened, but they have and we’ve contributed to the problems both those countries are now facing. I think it is right to reduce our troops and let those countries do what they need to do, but at the same time we probably owe them some support to do that.

Europe: We should stay a part of the EU. Priorities to work together on climate change and the economic crisis. I’m undecided on how much say the EU should have on our day-to-day business.

And one final thing (I’m not sure which point it comes under) if David Cameron tries to destroy the BBC he’ll have to get past me first!!!