Saturday, 12 March 2016

A landslide?

The turnout at the last general election was 66 and a bot percent. Of those who voted only a third voted Tory. So less than a quarter of those eligible to vote voted for the party who are currently in government.
A third of the electorate didn't turn up to vote. That is called a 'good turnout'. It's not good. It is something that politicians ought to be worried about, instead of smug and complacent. If a surgeon were to only save two-thirds of his patients, he would probably face criminal charges. The apathy of the electorate speaks volumes about both the parties and their leaders. It also says something about our unfair voting system. Last time round I did turn up to vote for a change, and voted for the Green Party, which is probably the least destructive of the lot. It got a tenth of the number of votes the tories got, yet the Green Party only has four seats in parliament, where the Tory Party has 312. Where is the fairness in this? I feel completely disenfranchised. Is this really what the word democracy means? Proportional representation would be a much fairer system, because the seats would be allocated to reflect how people actually voted. And the people who are currently lining their pockets, and are about to do so even further at the expense of the disabled, wouldn't get such an easy ride. It's all a bit too cosy for me.

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