To think a 66% turnout is just not enough

[odyssey2001]

It just annoys me that only two thirds of the population care about how the country is run.

AIBU to think that if you do not vote you cannot whine and moan about the economy, benefits, immigration, the NHS, pensions, potholes, the education system, tuition fees, any political party especially UKIP or austerity measures.

If you don't vote, you don't get a say.

But the first past the post system creates disengagement and apathy with voters living in "safe seat" constituencies. Scotland introduced the single transferable vote and turnout improved considerably (this was before IndyRef)

We had a record turnout in my area of just under sixty percent. This is fabulous for the area, and the Tory did lose a little ground to UKIP. My own vote was totally tucking wasted as it is one of the safest blue seats ever. I do not understand it. Where do the farmers imagine their low paid workers come from? Their subsidies? Why don't the low paid vote for someone else? Maybe because they appreciate the racist line of UKIP. Opposition parties often do 't even field credible candidates here. I spoilt my local vote because my choice was between two swivel eyed racist local landowning loons. The

caroldecker
so, the people of Buckingham are not allowed to vote Labour or Lib Dem.

When the speaker was Tory, would you have liked the choice of nothing or nothing?

70,000 electors = 100,000 adults = taxation without representation

How did I not know that about the Speaker? I am frothing
We call this democracy???

I know a few people who didn't vote as they felt they didn't know enough about it. I think they were quite right not to vote. I've just had a bit of banter with my ex husband as the kids told me he'd voted conservative. He admitted he didn't really know much about politics and probably shouldn't have voted. I think he's right too!

Dixie
I Loathe UKIP, and realise that a lot of their voters used the safety of FPTP to protest : hence Farage not winning
BUT
it is grossly insulting to the English voters who are forced to support Scotland under the Barnett Formula
and bounced into supporting Ulster

that they have more seats for less votes - by a factor of more than ten

But overall they got 11% of the vote in the UK and got one seat. SNP got 4.3% and got 56. I didn't vote for UKIP but if this was any other party we would be querying it.

talkingpeace I totally agree with you. I was looking at those numbers earlier on the BBC election results page and thought "what the fuck?". It's really not fair at all..

The Tories and Labour both slightly increased their share of the vote compared to 2010.

But this slight increase in vote share resulted in 1 party gaining more seats and the other losing seats.

fairyfuck
I'm an immigrant.
It cost me over £2000 to get registered to vote in the country where my husband and children were born

only to have it rammed in my face that Scots and Ulstermen are worth many times myself

to get a government that is just shite

I honestly didn't even know the votes were "rigged" that way until today.I had to Google the term and I've lived here for 42 years.

I know a lot of people who voted tory yesterday who would otherwise have either voted labour or lib dem purely because they didn't want an snp coalition. I think it's really sad - I know we all like to slate politicians, but I feel really sad for a lot of the dedicated mps who gave had to resign or lost seats. I know we all like to slate them, but they're doing far more for the country and local communities than I can be arsed doing. Ed Balls, Nick Clean, the many lib dem mps. I even feel sorry for Nigel Farrage and Ed Millibars. At least they give a shit!

Thrilled about George Galloway though. That's one stain on humanity that I'm glad has lost his job...

Nick Clegg obviously not Nick Clean!