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Boggert:

--- Quote from: disco 70 on May 05, 2008, 20:47:09 ---Know what you mean about bone idle scrotes ! Have a family living next door to me, have the money to smoke, drink and watch sky tv but can`t be bothered to work.

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Its enough to send you nuts!

Disco Matt:
On a serious note, the political apathy in this country scares me. When the moderate majority of people don't bother to vote it gives extremists an easy route to power as they have no problem mobilising their supporters.

denviks:

--- Quote from: Disco Matt on May 05, 2008, 21:16:46 ---On a serious note, the political apathy in this country scares me. When the moderate majority of people don't bother to vote it gives extremists an easy route to power as they have no problem mobilising their supporters.

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i can understand why people dont bother waisting an hour of their day voting though.  how do i say that?  well why bother voting if the party you vote for have told you what they want to do for you as a nation. they then get in on your vote. they then lie, cheat and steal their way through office until they are voted out again. so that the next lying cheating party can get in to power.

so why bother ???


they are all the same at the end of the day ..........no backbone the lot of them .....me, who do i vote for.....none of them and thats my freedom of choice  ;)

muddy4x4:
I have to agree with you ! MP`S only lie when they open their mouths  [-X

datalas:
One of the key issues is I think separating "apathy" from other thoughts.  As Denviks pointed out there is certainly a feeling that voting makes little difference in the grand scheme of things and it is quite possible to be vehemently opposed to all the mainstream (and even lesser) political parties.  This isn't really apathy so much as despondency or despair.

Now, personally I side with the opinion that if you don't vote you don't really have the right to moan, but I can certainly take sympathy with those people who view the affair as "damned if you do, damned if you don't", locally certainly none of the three parties want to address anything that I take issue with so it can be a case of beggers choice.

Perhaps the real way to judge people's opinions is to introduce the "none of the above" box [1] and see how many people would vote, if only they could find one of the parties to truly represent their views.  I would love to think that voting numbers would go up significantly and show the powers that be [2] that we don't want career politicians, we don't want spin, we want the blooming country running quietly, efficiently and without it constantly being someone elses' fault when things go wrong.

I do however think that this is probably not the case and I'm on my own with the terminally ill informed continuing their inclination towards genetic voting and "whatever the tabloids say innit" :-o

Still...  I think I'll have breakfast [3]



[1] Thank you Brewster, although it might be better labelled as the "I wouldn't trust this bunch of muppets to put on a hat" box.

[2] Whitehall, Government, the major parties, although what they mostly "be" is annoying.

[3] Haha!  take that thought police!

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