To think that anyone who thinks that politics don't affect them is stupid!?!

[stirfry]

Just now at school waiting for the bell overheard a parent telling her friends that she wasn't going to bother voting because "its not like it affects me is it"

I totally get that she doesn't have to vote if she chooses not to but politics do affect each and everyone of us and and anyone who thinks they don't is, I'm sorry, but a bit dim!!

Bit of a rant but this is the third time in as many weeks I've heard someone express this opinion!!!

You mean people who say " I am not voting because they are all so untrustworthy, no point etc etc"

Yeah, cos that'll teach 'em.

I have a friend with this opinion. I found out at our last local election when she said 'I can't be arsed voting, well it doesn't affect me does it? I just get on with my little life and I don't bother anyone.'
EH???
Doesn't affect you? You're a single mum with a child under 5 who lives entirely on state benefits...er...I think it will affect you if the benefits system changes!!
It infuriates me that people just opt out, or think they do. I am still friends with her but I do think she is slightly dim for that view so YADNBU!!!

If you're not going to vote, spoil your ballot paper. Women who don't use their vote really piss me off. It isn't just not exercising your (hard won) right to vote, it is sticking two fingers up to all the women past and present who have fought/are fighting to get a vote in some really shite patriarchal societies.

Grrrr.

That's right Callisto! I can understand people thinking politicians are all the same and a bunch of tossers but you should vote and choose the best of a bad bunch imo.
We don't really know how lucky we are to be able to do things like this in this country, as women, but also just as free people!
My friend is just uninterested in anything beyond her own nose and the worst thing was, when she was saying the thing about not voting, a woman of about 65 that she was talking to was agreeing and saying 'yeah, me too, I can't be arsed'!!!
Great attitude.

I can't understand why people think that they should agree with everything a party says before they vote for them.

If you want a political party to reflect your own personal beliefs and values then start one; because that's the only way it will happen.

In other words, voting for a party is not so much a declaration of your beliefs as it is a choice of who you would like to be governed by.

Because one of those parties will govern you, whether you agree with everything they say or not.

What wise women you all are!

I don't agree with everything that the party I am going to vote for stand for but on a whole I think they will be better than the alternatives.

All this people who say that all partys are as bad as each other, I think that they actually just can't be bothered. I wonder if you asked them further how much they actually know!

I totally agree that if you really want to make a protest by not voting for any of them then spoil your paper!!

i think we all ought to use our votes in the correct way, i have heard comments like this but its not because they dont think it matters to them, these few people clearly stated, it was because they couldnt be bothered, no wonder the country is in the state it is, if particular cant be bothered with it.

If particular people - sorry