By your own account you live in a ‘safe’ seat. Millions don’t vote as they fully grasp doing so is a waste of their time and an insult to their intelligence. If you want compulsory voting you first certainly need to offer representation for that vote.
Like Jimmy Savile in plain sight- they’re either unwilling or able to bring him to book.So the country is up shit creek without a paddle and the conservatives leave the lying toad, that none of them trust, in power until they vote for a new leader. And they tell us that the country must come first. It doesn’t look that way.
The problem is not with people not voting, it's our screwy electoral system that allows minority groups to elect radical governments. Johnson was right about one thing, in that if the majority parties ever got their act together they could pass electoral reform that would put the Tories out of power for a generation.
Except, of course it wouldn't put them out of power but rather force them not to be such a far right party with policies like sending refugees to Rwanda.
Andrea Jenkyns today giving the crowd the finger!
In which case voting should be compulsory. Can’t help it if people can’t be arsed. When you think the countries where people have to fight for the right to vote it does make you wonder.
Dunno think it's a bit pointless forcing people to vote, Greece has a 99% turnout for example and the same with Australia doesn't mean you'll get a decent government plus the people who don't vote (ie me) are actually voting for the status quo.
That's also usually the safest choice in political polls...In a YouGov poll 12% of Conservatives want none of the above as the new leader.
Maybe, but it would stop all this no majority of the popular vote stuff.
"But we can always vote them out!"And so emblematic of the entire Tory government attitude to the UK population.
Many that vote for them get fvcked over by their vile contemptible policies, yet continue to believe the excuses and never-ending stream of insidious Tory propaganda. Stockholm syndrome me thinks.
John
Maybe, but it would stop all this no majority of the popular vote stuff.
The wedding party story seems to have legs. The pair of grifters need to hang on in Downing St so he can celebrate his third wedding to his seventh mistress at Chequers. I know it’s short notice but there must be some short staffed, prawn balls in the freezer country pub that would jump at the business?
The wedding party story seems to have legs. The pair of grifters need to hang on in Downing St so he can celebrate his third wedding to his seventh mistress at Chequers. I know it’s short notice but there must be some short staffed, prawn balls in the freezer country pub that would jump at the business?
At least Margaret Hilda didn’t put the Civil Service through the indignity of evicting her as they’ve once had to do with Johnson already, from the Foreign Secretary’s official residence,^^ do the decent thing ???