On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:04:50AM +0000, John Seago wrote:
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 06:26, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
In preparation for the next general election I don't know if I can bring myself to vote for any of the parties because they all suck, just some more than others. If in effect I could vote for all the parties who were crap instead of the ones that were totally crap then it wouldn't be a total disaster.
Which was precisely my point, don't vote for, vote against. (Or write on your ballot paper what you think of the Candidates, they all have to
You missed my point then, the mainstream parties with the current system don't care if you vote for a minority party (hell the liberal democrats are a fairly mainstream party that suffers very often from the mentality of the other voters "I would vote lib-dem but they won't get many votes, so I won't vote for them". It makes no "real" difference with a single vote if you spoil the ballot or vote for a minority party.
There is of course the other option that is voting with your feet and leaving the country altogether, which I did find quite interesting that in the past few years the rate of migration from the uk has increased.
I'm not quite sure which countries have "free and fair elections" though ;)
Adam