Do you have faith in the electorate?

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I used to believe that the public were to be depended on, in the main, to deliver commonsence results. However, after Brexit and now the possibility of a hung parliament I have lost all faith in my fellow countrymen. I am so depressed. I was a staunch Labour voter but no longer. We are heading to a financial disaster led by a dreamer who has never held a cabinet position. Poor NHS. It will grind to a hault as our economy shrinks to an unimaginable depressed state.

No, I don't. I used to. It's a real problem.

Nope we are sheep left or right seduced by soundbites, and those who are able to think critically are in a bloody quandary on who to vote for at all!

If the exit polls are correct I want to cry.

No. Many people seem to vote out of spite.
Most people can't be bothered to even look at a manifesto , let alone think critically about it.
People get too much of their information from social media, where so much misinformation is peddled.

What else would you suggest, OP?

I think the electorate is ok, but I would like electoral reform.

I'd like the boundaries commission (or whatever it's called) proposals to rebalance constituencies (removes one of the anomalies of FPTP if each 'post' is as far as possible the same size)

I'm not sure I either trust or mistrust the electorate. I certainly dislike approaches that favour style over substance, and I do worry about cost of manifesto programmes. All parties made unaffordable promises this time, and I think that's bad. That Labour's was by far the most unaffordable did seem to get overlooked rather.

Corbyn was brilliant as a campaigner. But as the overall result was that he didn't lead the party to an actual win, so the policies will remain untested at least for a while.

I hope that next time around they will be better costed, in the sense of the overspend being considerable smaller.

UKIP are now irrelevant, unless Brexit stalls.

LibDems are inching back to where they were in the 00s

The Tories need to chance how they campaign. They looked lacklustre and were certainly highly repetitive, which meant that it looked as if they didn't have enough to say ie we don't have the answers.

I think more time is needed to properly evaluate a manifesto and its ideas, and we didn't have that in a snap election.

To improve the decision making process we also need more political neutral press outlets.

The Tories campaign was disastrous. I worry that it actually reflect their ability. JC was put to do something he has practiced for more than 30 years. It is not surprising who is more popular.