To just not feel qualified to vote?

[OctaviaBrennan123]

Honestly please tell me how the average person can possibly be qualified to even hold an opinion on whether it is better for us to be in or out of Europe? Unless you are an experienced economist, how can you even begin to understand the complexities and dynamics? How does the average person make an informed decision on who to vote for?

I really want to vote. Women died for me to have the vote, but if I feel like this, I bet millions more do too.

I just tried VoteMatch. I do have most in common with the Green Party, which is excellent as I'd chosen them anyway!

Spoiling your ballot is better than not voting at all, because at least it gets looked at on the night, but it's not any kind of national protest - spoiled ballots aren't collected or reported nationally.

I respect your decision not to make a half-arsed vote for someone you don't understand x but I would urge you to read the manifestos, to learn about who wants to represent you, and to tick a box - because having someone represent you in democracy is better than having no one at all. And if you don't like the choices on offer - stand yourself, or encourage others to do the same, and support them to gg elected. Politics is poorer if we - all of us - don't take part .

I believe we should have to vote - before I get flamed, I really feel exercising the right to vote is important: if more people voted, we could get some very different election results and some positive endorsements of candidates and parties. There is so much voter apathy it is frightening. To me not voting is taking the fact we're in a democracy for granted.

I spoiled my ballot paper when the police commissioner election took place. Not one of the candidates did so much as push a leaflet through our door. I wrote, "if none of the candidates can be bothered to canvass the electorate in this area, I cannot be bothered to vote for any of them" on the paper.

I don't vote. Don't know what they're going on about and never understood it. I haven't voted since I was able to and doubt I'll vote this time round.

Makes no sense to me. Did see a massive VOTE UKIP poster hanging on the balcony near a primary school earlier though