When people say 'I vote UKIP because the other parties don't listen': What they mean is that 'I am a lazy twat who can't be bothered engaging my brain to think through any issue, but the UKIP soundbites and unaffordable empty promises chime with what I read in the Daily Mail and my own petty prejudices'.
Compos, I think it's the politicians' responsibility to address this. It's unreasonable to expect great masses of hard-pressed people, many of whom have never received training in critical listening, to invest time & effort in working through matters of state. It's a pity more of us would rather discuss BGT than PMQs, but not a crime or even surprising.
Despite my better-than average education and political awareness, I am majorly fucked off by the fact that none of the people running the conditions of my life have ever lived anything like a normal life. It's always pissed me off, tbh, but in the old days there were at least policy-makers in Parliament who had 'lived' and who stayed in touch with those who do.
I've only voted non-Labour twice (once libdem, once green) and I wouldn't do it again. But I am bitterly disappointed in the Labour we have now, and - should they not liven up their messages before 2015 - regret to say I'll probably spoil my vote instead of supporting yet another bunch of self-referential numpties. It's not our job to seek the parties' missions, it's their job to offer them. The fact that UKIP makes a better show of it than Labour isn't a criticism of voters, it's a condemnation of Labour.