Are you going to register to vote?

Cash-Cows

I 100% agree in voting but you have to question in a first past the post system the point of say being a Tory voter in the safe labour seat of Bootle.

balletshoes

NobodysChild wrote: »

I think it's crucial Megan. I mean, as some people have highlighted, many people in many countries don't get to vote at all: especially women!!! So to not vote seems so wrong to me.

Each to their own, and I do understand that some people are so disenchanted that they don't trust any of the parties, but I think everyone should vote. I mean as many have said, you can't complain about anything the Government are doing, if you didn't vote, can you?!

I always vote in the general elections, even though to be honest i often feel that no candidate is better than any other, or represents my views any better than any other.
I would like to vote for the party of my choice, and not feel that I have to make a strategic vote in order to try to ensure that the candidate for the party I least agree with, wins the seat.

balletshoes

thorsoak wrote: »

Those who have a vote, and who choose not to use it, get the government they deserve.

I voted last time, we have a coalition government which I didn't vote for, so what does that say about those who did vote last time?

bsod

If you know your vote isn't going to change the result, it is perfectly sensible not to use it

jaylee3

bsod wrote: »

If you know your vote isn't going to change the result, it is perfectly sensible not to use it

Do you actually believe that?

bsod

most people don't live in marginal seats, most people don't get the MP they voted for and never will, election outcomes are decided by people who can't make their mind up from one election to the next, everyone else should be given a standing order option.

DKLS

Jagraf wrote: »

I see it in the same way as educating children, its good for the country. I don't expect everyone to think the same as me, but I see it as that important. We need 'someone' to run the country, and as we are democratic, we should act that way.

It's a bit like everyone pulling together with anything, we are stronger if we do.

If we didn't have a government, there wouldn't be any tax, as the country wouldn't be able to run at all.

Spoil your ballot paper.

I would spoilt the ballot but that requires a degree of interest and effort, and I have neither as their is sod all benefit to me.

TBagpuss

I am registered and I will vote. I feel I have a moral obligation to do so, and I alsways vote when I am eligable to do so.

Until last year, when I moved house, I have almost always lived in 'safe seats' where the chance of my vote making a difference was minute - for example, the constituancy where I lived for the past 10 years has had the same outcome in every election since 1922 (and 1922 was an anomoly!)

I often find that there is no-one who really represents my views but it is possible to vote for the one who least opposes them, or who is most strongly opposed to the things I most want to protest against or oppose.

This year I am in a constituancy where things are much less set in stone, however, I will have to decide between a candidate and party which I broadly support, but which has no chance of winning where I live, and one which I have issues with but which would be (both as an individual and as a party) the lesser of two evils, from my perspective.

I would prefer us to have a more democratic system, but I don't that that opting out altogether is in any way useful, as it means that our voice is not heard at all.

DigForVictory

If I don't vote, then I can't grumble that whomever is making a complete pig's ear of it.
Even in the cold windy rain, I vote.
Startles my husband that I feel that strongly but then he was never of a gender considered a chattel...

fawd1

balletshoes wrote: »

I voted last time, we have a coalition government which I didn't vote for, so what does that say about those who did vote last time?

It says that they should work towards making everyone they know who didn't vote, get up off of their backsides so that the government that the country actually does want will be running the country. Also, I would say that you surely can't be dismissing the importance of voting because you didn't get the outcome you wanted? It's a democracy which means you get the government that most people wanted.