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I hate the "you must vote or you have no right to complain attitude". When there's the choice of bad, worse and horrific then is there a choice at all?
What difference does voting make?
Hate it all you like mate but the fact is pols listen to the electorate, harsh but true. I wonder just how many people are interested in actually finding out which party's policies they consider 'bad, worse or horrific'.
The thing is, there is very little difference between the political parties, so why should people bother trying to find out what the miniscule differences are?
Andrew Haldenby, director of Reform, blames policy-makers who "ignore the interests of young people in favour of appealing to pensioners and those more likely to vote". (taken from original story)
It makes more of a difference than apathy IMO.
Are you talking all parties or just the main 3.
None of the others are really that relevant.
Having said that I'd have loved to be going through my 20s in the 60s but i've not too much to complain about and i'll make the most with what i'm left with!
Voter Apathy is a problem, it means a large number of people don't gt their views heard, and as it gets worse as the three main parties get closer, an icreasing percentage of voters will be those with extremist views, probably of the right wing.
Then we end up with the BNP in.
Well I wouldn't go that far mate. The BNP are pretty much a protest vote, they'll never "get in" As for Uk politics, it's a case of voting for the lesser of three evils.
Voting for either only encourages them, it makes them think that they have a mandate. Look at Blair- he got 1/3 of the votes, but thinks the country has decided to throw themselves behind him as leader.
Voting makes no difference.
I voted. It made no difference. I might as well have stayed at home. My vote was for a minority party in the area, and so it was effectively flushed down the loo.
The marginal constituencies tend to be grey, middle-class and white. The only one I can think of that isn't is Shipley- half of it is rural, and half urban. Therefore if you aren't one of those people then nobody gives a cack about you.
Young people don't vote because none of the parties relates to them. The Tories relate to old people, Labour blame the young for everything. There are more older people than there are younger people.
Why?
It wouldn't be because people don't vote for them, would it...?
I'd like to think that this was all said with tongue firmly planted in your cheek, but I don't think it was.
The generation which currently contributes "nothing" helped build this country, sure they weren't perfect but you are a damned sight better off because of them, not in spite of them.
As for saving, why should they? They were told that, if they paid NI, the Govt would look after them in their old age. Don't blame them because the Govt lies.
The youth vote made a difference in Bristol West and in the Cardiff and Manchester wards heavily populated by students. It made a difference for George Galloway in the East End. Where it doesn't make a difference is where people fall for the 'nothing will change' line.
Talking off Georgie Boy there is always the choice of starting your own party or standing as an independant if you have the chutzpah and the imagination.
A week ago I was in Romania reading the names of young people on a memorial who were murdered in the streets by a totalitarian regime because they wanted the same rights we choose to ignore. Use your rights people as the alternative can be a lot worse.
please remember ...you youngsters did not invent the world ...not even sex drugs or rock and roll.
the roofs you have had over your heads ...the warm blankets ...the beans on the table and the diesele in the tanks ...the shoes on your feet and the bridges you cross ...were mostly put there by the old people ...now worn out and nackered.
but saying that ...the complete economic cock up over the years is to blame ...not the living longer people.
how come none of our great leaders or thinkers can ever see beyond next week ...or in more stubborn people ...the end of their term in office?