On Monday 28 Feb 2005 14:52, main-request@lists.alug.org.uk wrote:
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.
Having re-installed since the Euro Election I'll have to dig through my archives to find what the Lib Dems said to me but I can assurue you it did make a difference to the Lib Dems. Still if you're not going to emigrate, I had the chance, but I'm now too old and broken, then the only recourse we, you and I, have is activism to change the system. A revolution of two, with one in a wheelchair, at least might get a slight sympathy vote.