To think there needs to be a points strategy for voting.

@StarofWonderStarofLight you sound very much like the poster who wanted a deduction on their NI contributions because you don't use the NHS 🤔

In a democracy, everyone should have a vote. ONE vote.

Just like it is now, in fact. Unless of course you don't think we should live in a democracy any longer.

Oh course they have. It is a bit foolish not to. OP seems to think they vote based on their intelligence level and not their financial situation though.

So your solution to combat the rise of the right, driven by inequality and people feeling left behind by those in power, is to further disempower and marginalise them? Yeah that’s really gonna help.

Your suggestion does away with democracy. You’d be as well to move to a wholesale technocracy. That’s the basis of democracy - everybody counts the same.

You do realise that most elderly people are parents right
Also most people in receipt of uc are in work and tax payers.

A better policy would require everyone to be over 25 and pass a basic comprehension test to vote, fail the test you dont get to vote that year

That was one of suggestion on this thread, that parents get more voting power. I should have quoted it.

How do you know that person hasnt spent time throughly discussing the ins and outs with their Nan and decided they agree with her. Being a grandparent doesnt mean you know bugger all about politics!!

It's also a really stupid idea and I can't believe this is a serious thread

The contempt just oozes out of you. Is universal sufferage only a problem because you don't like either how people vote or why they vote the way they do?

Have you ever considered that other people don't have your privileges and experience the world in the same way as you and that might cause them to have different opinions.

I've worked in law all my life and some of the dumbest people I know have a law degree. Your idea is totalitarian and against everything democracy stands for

Also my parents who couldn’t go to university because in their day you left school at 15 you got a job and you handed in your keep to your parents. Less voting power for them 🤔

I think we could modernise the House of Lords while holding onto its historical connotations by electing its members, with each voter's vote weighted by the amount of tax HMRC records showed them as having paid since the previous election.

Voting could be done on-line by people logged into their HMRC account, so it wouldn't be administratively difficult to implement.

Democracy would not be compromised because everyone would still have an equal vote for the more powerful House of Commons, but the people who actually pay for stuff would get more of a say overall, which seems fair to me.

If some voters choose to vote based on emotional responses to particular parties rather than a critical evaluation of manifesto policies why is their choice less valid than yours?

I absolutely think many people are too easily swayed by incorrect information- the solution to that is to fix the regulation of social media (and mainstream media) to stop companies run by graduates being able to pump out misinformation. Not take away the vote from some people

So my friend who didn’t complete her degree and is infertile because of cancer gets less votes that any slack Alice who can get up the duff? She is extremely intelligent and hard working but fuck it she can’t have a baby so less voting power.

I know two highly educated professionals with multiple degrees each who are both members of a left leaning political party. They have very strong political views but both admit to never reading the manifesto of the party they are both members of. Where would they fit in your proposal?

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No. I voted to remain, but what’s triggered off different/racist parties success is the absolute balls up the Tories and Labour have/are still making with this country. 🤷‍♀️

Can you name those abuses? Have you ever watched postal votes being checked against signatures to see the process?

You mean this University educated ? - rampant socialists......but only until they themselves have to start paying tax