women died for the right of richer women to vote - not all women however the principle stands i think - the right TO vote rather than the right TO choose to vote.
the point about marginal seats stands. in oldham the BNP got in - in more than one area around the time of the riots becuase people couldn't be arsed to exercise their vote. the next time they did!
i don't see how i can personally bitch about education, the nhs, immigration policies, refugees, higher crime, never seeing a policeman, having to wait in casualty for 6 hours if i am lucky with my children, not being able to get an NHS dentist, of my THREE children which shall i choose to put through university? i cant afford all three. will i have a pension when i retire? what will the value of my works pension be? would i be able to afford to re-train in another field if i so chose to do so and would the oppertunity to do that be in existance?
if you don't believe in a candidate you should get off your arse and go and spoil your paper - write at the bottom " none of the above they are all tossers" but get off your arse.
to have an argument which goes - i am not well up on political things its a bit complicated and i havent really looked into it - thats shameful. absolutley shameful.
www.spoilyourvote.co.uk/
a get off your arse and spoil your vote
www.marxist.org.uk/htm_docs/comm5.htm
great argument for not voting
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide19/part04.html
a good historic guide not too indepth
www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/04/05britain.html
this came rom the link above
"According to a Mori poll in February, only 45% of people were definitely intending to vote, and that this could result in an actual turnout of 51%. Those who will not vote are overwhelmingly working class, ?traditional Labour voters?."
made me think about te number of candidates all dressed nicely in their suits i have had knocking on my door - rosettes blowing in the breeze - white smiles abound. errrrmm that would be none - ever.
i have nearly always lived in a council or HA house and i never had someone shaking my hand at the door, asking my views, urging me to vote. thats becuase i am sure its seen as a waste of time. poor people traditionally don't vote - why go round a council estate and waste a day?
well my vote will count you two faced political bstards, and one day you will clamber to the door of the majority electorate - which will not be the right of centre. they cut benefits for thosee who dont vote - so it doesnt matter. thats wy i vote. i vote becuase my grandad and nanna argued over which poster tory ( my nanna) or labour ( grnandad) they were passionate about it.
when i was a kid my mum owned her house ( still does) i remember being picked up in a car by tories and driven personally with my mum and my nan to the voting booth - they drove us there in a ded posh car becuase they knew their vote counted. it was like being royalty on that day with posh people driving us around - like voting was ded important. i will vote becuase i personally feel discgraceful not doing - its my nistory, its my beliefs, its my right - fought for not by emiline pankhurst - but thousands of working class people.
i will vote becuase its one in the eye to those who count me as "one of them on that council estate - all scroungers, druggies, alchies, everyone got a soical worker" i will vote because i have the same voice as any one else regardless of income and intelligence. i will vote becuase iknow i can trust myself more than i can trust unknown white middle class fckwits to look after my interests and the interests of my children and their children