On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:18:08PM +0000, John Seago wrote:
It is my opinion in these days when democracy has not turned out to be what some imagined it should be, that apathy is our worst enemy, but that an opposition group can be more useful than a single issue pressure group.
If a Party is to be organised then it may be more useful to organise a Political Organisation to vote against certain individuals or parties, rather than for a single issue pressure group. Perhaps someone will know if the various election regulations covers those who are campaigning AGAINST an individual or Party.
I would prefer it if we had a better voting system, e.g. one where you can vote more than once, i.e. once for each party you support. So the presence of a vote for party A and party B on my ballot paper and a lack of a vote for party C in effect means that I don't care if A or B win, but I certainly don't want to support C.
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.
This has the nice side effect that I could vote for single issue parties, and when they get lots of votes people think that maybe the issues they are raising are a good idea and the mainstream will take them up.
Adam