AS a reporter it is a rare day if I am not inundated with stories about councillors, new policies, meetings, press conferences, and so on.

You would think that this would give me a better idea of the election process, how things are decided and how much of a say people actually have.

But in all honesty, I have no idea. And more frighteningly, I don’t think many people my age do either. And I think it’s because the councillors, MPs and MEPs don’t have a clue either.

On local and European election day I got a lovely wrap on my facebook app giving me the choice to tick, “yes, I’m voting” or “give me more information”.

This must have been a last ditch attempt to gather some votes from a younger audience, and many of my facebook friends did go out and vote, tagging themselves in when they reached their local polling stations and having various debates about who they voted for and asking everyone who voted for Ukip to delete them from their friends list.

But me, well I had no idea who was running in my area for Dudley Metropolitan Council or the EU so I ‘saved my vote’ instead of voting blindly.

But even if I were informed I don’t think a candidate would represent my view anyway.

They represent whatever their party wants them to represent. Not me (if I voted), not him next door, not the corner shop, and not the majority of the other people that voted them into power.

I voted in the 2010 general election for Liberal Democrats based on their position in education and the likes of university fees.

They were supposed to abolish all fees. They got half in power when they teamed up with the Tories to get Labour off the grid and they dropped all their morals, all of their policies that got them into the favour of the people just because they wanted to sit in the high seats in Parliament.

But even if they hadn’t have dropped their policies, I didn’t vote for the Tories and there was no clear winner, so why should they be in power?

In an effort myself to understand who I should side with this time round, as I had not got any election propaganda through my door or in my e-mail inbox, I did a “test” on facebook – “Which political party should you vote for?”

I answered each question in depth and was given the following results – “I side 77 per cent with Scottish Nationals, 76 per cent with Conservatives, 76 per cent with Labour, 74 per cent with Liberal Democrats, 63 per cent with Green, and 60 per cent Plaid Cymru.”

Well, it was safe to say I ended up more confused because the things I was passionate about engaging with and changing, apparently all the parties are pretty passionate about them too, or they’re just saying they are to get my support.