In the local elections I decided I couldn’t be arsed to vote and I have never felt more empowered on election day.
My vote has never counted, I have never been able to vote in any election that has been remotely close. But this election was different. You see the couldn’t be arsed to vote party increased their share of the overall vote by 3%. Last election the total bothering to vote was 39% this election it was 36%, a 3% swing in real terms not like the Tory 3% swing which was only on those bothering to vote, their real gain was just 1.08%. I was pleased that my home city Sheffield was ahead of the game below the national average (36%) at 34.5% one more push and the CBAV party could reach the important two thirds majority! The best wards were in the north of the City Firth park ,Richmond and Southey green who came in at a low of 27%. However the Winner in this election was Manor and Castle where only 24% bothered to get up off the sofa!
I cant wait till the next local elections when people in the Sheffield Park ward will have the opportunity to try and break the record low 20% (2003).
Something is rotten in this so called democracy, by intentionally not voting I feel I have made an important difference.
I am very tired now after all the election excitement, the sofa is beckoning
I am Surprised I was arsed enough to write this up!
SheffJeff
I cant wait till the next local elections when people in the Sheffield Park ward will have the opportunity to try and break the record low 20% (2003).
Something is rotten in this so called democracy, by intentionally not voting I feel I have made an important difference.
I am very tired now after all the election excitement, the sofa is beckoning
I am Surprised I was arsed enough to write this up!
SheffJeff
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Heehee!
09.05.2006 21:41
Spook Plant
Agreed.
10.05.2006 06:07
With minority support governments making up their own rules as they go along, in order to sustain their power, and virtually no opposition, what hope is there for future reform? Why would anyone with any sense endorse such a system by voting?
Alf Narkist
28% up my end!!!
10.05.2006 09:14
By not voting people think they are registering a protest against the system, but this isn't the case. It is more true to say that if you don't vote you are saying that you are entrusting those who do vote to make the right decision, therefore rather than protesting against the system you are actually endorseing it.
I am not happy with the way this is as there no way in this system that you can register a protest when you should be able to. What are the solutions? I don't know myself. People suggest making voting compulsory which I think is wrong. It has also been suggested that we have a 'None of the Above', which I am not sure would help with turn out. Initially I think it would be a novelty and people might turn out just to cast that vote, but in time people will get over that and not vote and we would see the same sort of turn outs that we are getting now.
There is loads more that could be said about this and I could go on about representation rather than delegation; anarcho-syndicalism; participatory budgets, but I would quite like to hear more about what others have got to say before I go on. Either way, it is clear that we need to do as much to expose our "democracy" for the con that it is.
Louise
Louise Kaye Keane
Government Fraud
10.05.2006 11:12
Corrupt degenerates called Politicians are determined to hang onto their fat salaries and outrageous pensions. They will over-ride the Democratic will and prevent the Crown declaring that the will of the Electorate is that a State of Anarchy be declared, that the Civil service and the Armed forces have a duty to see that it works. the Monarch will be prevented from fullfilling the duty of a representative Monarchy by aforesaid corrupt degenerates who now undermine the built in controls of the Jtudges and the House of Lords.
There was only one correction needed to make the old House of Lords a better place. All the backwoods Lords who flooded in to vote their own self interest over Poll Tax should have permanently lost their hereditary seats and been charged in just the same way as a corrupt Councillor voting when they had a personal benefit would have been.
Blair is building Global Fascism, to enable that he is corrupting the British Political system to introduce fascist measures that Thatcher dared not. Anway, I must get on with the Junketing Politicians squandering VATpayer's money on their May 9th celebration of the EUropean Union rip off they so greedily profit from.
Ilyan