1997 was my first opportunity to vote. I was 18 and had only ever known life under tory rule. I knew nothing about politics, only that the tories were all boring fusty old snobs who did not connect with me, my age group or the working class.
But here's this guy on the other side doing keepy uppies with Kevin Keegan and is being endorsed by Noel Gallagher. I'm voting for him.
Four years later the country seems to be in better shape and John Prescott is punching egg throwers. The alternatives are William Hague or a chubby little ginger Scottish chap. I'm sticking with Labour.
I feel it was after this election victory that Labour started crawling up its own backside and morphed into everything I disliked about the tories in the first place.