Anybody else not voting again?

[RomanyQueen1]

Just that, is anybody not voting and didn't vote last time?

But why?

What’s feeding it?

3 years of

Yay...britain is great...lets show Johnnie foreigner how its done...they need us more than we need them...a deal will be easy as everyone wants to trade with us....lets make britain great again....experts are useless

Etc

I'm not voting.

It’s an unpopular opinion but I’d bring in mandatory voting.

Agree that right not to vote is important (eg in places where there is widespread fraud or pressure). But they should count and publicise the number of spoiled ballots as a way for politicians and public to understand the level of dissatisfaction in general. Maybe some comedian will then try for office to show them!

I think not voting can be a message in itself

It is. The message is that we do not value our democratic rights so they can be taken away without too much fuss.

Not voting doesn't just mean you cannot complain about the outcome. It means you cannot complain when voting rights start to get limited or taken away again.

Our freedoms are not guaranteed. We must fight for them always, otherwise someone will take them away again.

Great if you're cool with that, but seeing as you are part of a wider society, why not fucking join in like a grown up and try to mitigate the shite the rest of us are all living through.

Actually, that was a better way to put it than I did.

Did you know they do have elections in North Korea and voting is compulsory.

However, there is one name on the ballot paper. The voter is handed the ballot and told to put it in the box.. job done. North Korea election

I've voted. I have voted in every election but one since I was 18 (the one was because I was in hospital with meningitis). People fought for our right to vote. Women died for our right to vote. I'm using it.

If you don't like the choices available for election - stand yourself. I have and I've even won twice. At least then you've got one person on the ballot you're happy to vote for :) No deposit in local elections. To stand as an independent, you just need the right form with 10 valid nominations from the ward you want to stand in, get it confirmed by the elections office and away you go. If you want to stand for a party you have to get selected by them first. If you want to do it properly and get leaflets through all those letter boxes its hard work - you'll be writing, printing and delivering it yourself with the help of any volunteers you can muster - then there's hustings, casework, attending local meetings and that's before you elected.

I will not be voting, complete & under waste of time & I really don't give a monkey's who gets in

I always vote. It's a privilege. If I don't know who to vote for I just try to pick one!

Agreed, it is a privilege but by voting blindly does not that make it same as not voting at all?

that not

I admit it. I never used to vote. I'm 39 and only joined the electoral register 3 years ago. But I've voted every time since.

@coffeehabit no need to vote blindly, you can google the manifesto of each party (except the brexit party because they don't believe in them 🤔) and then make an informed choice.

I voted! Those who don’t should find a little desert island.

I voted. But I don't care if people choose not to.

I ended up feeling compelled to research and vote .

But I feel all politicians are self serving. I actually work with some of them.
Maybe that's why I'm so disillusioned.

I ended up feeling compelled to research and vote .

Good for you.

I agree many politicians are self-serving twerps but equally there are some very hard working ones beavering away.

And sometimes they surprise you. I was gobsmacked yesterday when George Osborne backed the Lib Dems in his editorial in yesterday's Evening Standard, albeit in very obtuse language.
Michael Heseltine has been much braver.

I've never voted and I don't complain.

Shocking

Question time is interesting.

Pretty much seems most people in that audience feel pretty much how I do.

And that's why I voted today. I'm fed up of the infighting and quibbling.

I want a definitive decision not this mess.

I want politicians to listen to the people they are representing.

That fucking referendum should never have happened without a plan in place for either eventuality.

My friend refused to vote in one Eu election because it made no difference. We returned a bloody BNP candidate. I was so cross!!