My vote isn't going to make one jot of difference is it?

[TheoriginalLEM]

I live in a safe tory seat, there is no way this will change i am told, so really? what is the point even, of me voting? It will make no difference locally and even less nationally.

:(

I am going to vote, i haven't decided who for yet, it is between labour and green, but honestly, i may as well vote monster raving looney for all the difference it is going to make.

Someone please tell me that this isn't so?

The trouble, IMO with the Greens Merguez, is that they're not dirty, nasty, or ruthless enough. They’re a bunch of nice, sheltered, middle-class people. (and I'm not being snide with that description). I admire them for being members of a dying breed, honestly I do.

But they are hopeless though, as they just keep trying to appeal to people's compassion and that aint going to cut it in my view. If they actually summoned the nerve to say that the LibLabCon clones are lying to us about economics I’d consider voting for them.

Instead, N Bennett, for example, just bleats on about food banks, suggesting that we should feel guilty about people in that situation. They won’t go out on a limb and be more radical, instead they prefer to stay on safe, un-threatening ground. A bit like Oxfam imploring us to give out of sympathy rather than fight for real change in global capitalism..

I suggest you vote early.

Does anyone else remember the long queues when the polls closed and people being unable to cast their votes last time?

Register your vote, please. I think it may not alter your seat, but it often does matter what percentage of people (i) voted at all; or (ii) voted a particular way. There is a chance that sometimes a low share of the vote overall will make the 'winning' party less gung ho about their more controversial policies.

And the fewer the people that do vote, the more the politicians skew their policies to appeal to the minority who do. Today in the UK that generally means the elderly, although it is the young who are suffering most under austerity.