Why do so many people not vote?

[CBR JGWRR]

What's the point of voting? Really. Whatever happens, a bunch of liars get in; at least with the new green and purple liars they haven't already got previous for messing the country up, so that is a bonus.

Yes, people fought and died for the right to have a free democracy; but they didn't die for a bunch of scheming, lying self-pleasurers who say anything to get elected.


It is just broken.

[272BHP]

BlackLabel said:

I'm not old enough to remember the 1992 election however from what I've read John Major used to go up and down the country and speak to people from a soap box. Can you imagine any of the leaders doing that now?

Surely proof that the prime minister is a PHer and reads this thread?

[petrolsniffer]

[jmorgan]

CBR JGWRR said:

What's the point of voting? Really. Whatever happens, a bunch of liars get in; at least with the new green and purple liars they haven't already got previous for messing the country up, so that is a bonus.

Yeah, but their pre voting verbal diarrhoea is astounding. They get a slot on a TV debate and think they are in with a shout and it gets self fulfilling in a way. The manifesto from the Greens is scary, I mean really scary. OK they are not going to be in control anytime soon but if they have a say, they will be petulant about to their own ends. Allowing this lot to have a say, well, we get what we deserve in the polls.

[CBR JGWRR]

jmorgan said:

CBR JGWRR said:

What's the point of voting? Really. Whatever happens, a bunch of liars get in; at least with the new green and purple liars they haven't already got previous for messing the country up, so that is a bonus.

Yeah, but their pre voting verbal diarrhoea is astounding. They get a slot on a TV debate and think they are in with a shout and it gets self fulfilling in a way. The manifesto from the Greens is scary, I mean really scary. OK they are not going to be in control anytime soon but if they have a say, they will be petulant about to their own ends. Allowing this lot to have a say, well, we get what we deserve in the polls.

TBF, at least they have some sort of conviction - Ok, it isn't a beneficial conviction, I'll agree to that - but at least it isn't lowest common denominator, appeal to everyone and no one style like the main parties do; they've formed a party based on something rather than nothing. (The quality of that something is a different question to my mind, as you can tell I am working on the basis we are being lied to from the start...)

What is needed is truth and honesty, and I have zero confidence in our political system to deliver those.

[jmorgan]

I think real truth and integrity and political ambitions are rare any day, be it in the past or in the future. We work with what we have.