The 7 June elections do not seem to be waited for in the apathetic Great Britain. Tony Blair's charm can no longer impress a disenchanted country. It is pretty obvious that Great Britain is not passing through a very happy period. This year has been full of ill-fated events: the most devastating precipitations since 1765, the most ravaging floods of the last 400 years, chaos and terrible railway accidents, protests generated by taxes on petrol, the spreading of the mad cow epidemic, because of which 2,5 million animals were sacrificed, the embarrassing reappearance of tuberculosis. The local papers describe Great Britain as an unhappy place, where teachers are not teachers, where policemen do not fulfil their duties, where surgeons do not operate in time, where streets are full of immigrants who are not interested in getting a legal status, where delinquents who have just got out of jail rape old women who are going shopping. "A wave of apathy is seizing the country", as the editorialist of "The Guardian" has put it. This is why nobody is very interested in the 7 June elections, in a country which seems to be affected by a crisis of the political class. Premier Tony Blair does not represent a novelty any longer, and his charisma "has turned into routine". The leader of the conservative opposition, William Hague, is a very gifted young man who keeps making exasperating mistakes. The civility of the electoral campaign is declining. At the same time, the electoral debates are focused on the "angels' sex" (i.e. the integration into the euro system, the immigrants' situation, the tax reduction), even if the middle-class, whose members are dominant, is mainly interested in public services. And the quality of these services is lamentable, both in the Conservatives' and external observers' opinion. The images to which the Conservatives are resorting are apocalyptic. Their el