How will you vote?

bo_drinker

tomterm8 wrote: »

I won't be voting. Not much point. I already know who will win.

Guaranteed a thieving tw4t who is full of !!!!!!:D

markharding557

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Just a bunch of loons but not racist.

We will have to agree to disagree on that one

System

i'll vote for whoever is least detrimental to my health (which rules on torys)

Brallaqueen

Lib Dem's. The other two have had far too long in power, messing up the country and taking us for what they can get. I have only a slim, faint little hope of things improving, but a hope none the less

nickmason

For all those saying "there's no point, it won't make a difference" I have a couple of observations (beyond the commonplace, but no less important, "people died for it")

I think it's pretty unlikely for anyone to know for a fact whether their vote will "matter". What people tend to mean by this is that they think there'll be no change. Well obviously if you want a change then the first thing to do, one would think, is vote for it.

It's a slightly silly idea to think that one's vote is only worth casting if it is likely to be "THE" vote that tips the result. It's also quite an arrogant idea. It seems more reasonable to consider your vote to be worth, at most, the 1/75,000 or whatever is required to return a local MP; and that that will be represented as a proportionate share of support or opposition - which is very definitely recognised.

The same logic can be applied to a level higher from the election of a local MP to the composition of Parliament. Why should anyone think their vote is worth more than a 1/40M?

Finally it's worth remembering that your vote is not just about national politics - a local MP is not just a representative vote-carrier for government. Your local MP - if any good - should also be the representative and advocate of last resort, and your vote matters in terms of to whom you give that honour and responsibility.

tomterm8

nickmason wrote: »

For all those saying "there's no point, it won't make a difference" I have a couple of observations (beyond the commonplace, but no less important, "people died for it")

I think it's pretty unlikely for anyone to know for a fact whether their vote will "matter". .

The constituancy I live in was created in 1974; since that time it the conservative party has always won with in excess of a 20% lead. The local poll results are showing something like a 30% lead this time round. My vote is worthless. It will have no impact on who is elected in my constituancy.

ukcarper

tomterm8 wrote: »

The constituancy I live in was created in 1974; since that time it the conservative party has always won with in excess of a 20% lead. The local poll results are showing something like a 30% lead this time round. My vote is worthless. It will have no impact on who is elected in my constituancy.

pretty much the same where I am I'll still go out and vote for someone else though

Butterfly_Brain

I think that it is about time we had proportional representation in this country and then we would get a true vote

nickmason

tomterm8 wrote: »

The constituancy I live in was created in 1974; since that time it the conservative party has always won with in excess of a 20% lead. The local poll results are showing something like a 30% lead this time round. My vote is worthless. It will have no impact on who is elected in my constituancy.

So on that basis, no one's vote has any impact. In which case how does the MP (Conservative or otherwise) get elected? Or is it that you, like them, have a very small share of the vote, but a proportionate one? It can be slightly depressing to realise that one has no more effect than that, but turned around, it would be anti-democratic if one did.

Kohoutek

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I think that it is about time we had proportional representation in this country and then we would get a true vote

Yeah, it's not really democracy if your vote counts for nothing is it!