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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
Apathy is the main problem over here Richard - the current government's track record is beyond appalling , Liz Truss should be in the tower with Boris - oops just remembered the no politics in the lounge rule.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
Isn't there an option called NOTA (None Of The Above) on the ballot paper? We have such an option in India. Once NOTA gets above a certain threshold percentage of the votes, then there will be re election (hopefully with a different set of candidates).
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Isn't there an option called NOTA (None Of The Above) on the ballot paper? We have such an option in India. Once NOTA gets above a certain threshold percentage of the votes, then there will be re election (hopefully with a different set of candidates).
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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
I figure that if you don't vote then you lose the right to complain about the government you do get. So get out there and - or spoil your ballot. Personally, I'd like to see a compulsory "none of the above" option at the bottom of all ballots. If it wins the seat, nobody is elected and everybody on the ballot is banned from public office for ten years. If "None of the above" wins the whole election, you have to restart with new candidates until we get ones the voters trust ... :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
Isn't there an option called NOTA (None Of The Above) on the ballot paper? We have such an option in India. Once NOTA gets above a certain threshold percentage of the votes, then there will be re election (hopefully with a different set of candidates).
I didn't know you had that in India - very sensible.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not here. You can actually spoil your ballot by writing such on the paper, or vote for every candidate. But that does not have any real effect on the outcome.
Was introduced in India about 10 years ago, as an electoral reform. Not sure whether it has made any big difference till now. But at least, there's such a choice for the voter. The Constitution of India allows any citizen to contest, and it is interesting to see that a number of candidates get lesser than NOTA itself.
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I didn't know you had that in India - very sensible.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
An example election result is here - my constituency - Bangalore North, in the recently concluded Indian Parliament Elections. [Election Commission of India](https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-S1024.htm) [^] Look at the NOTA numbers at the end.
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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
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Bit like the Mercan election, to choose between the decayed and the corrupt.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Except here we have decay and corruption on both sides.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
Except here we have decay and corruption on both sides.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I figure that if you don't vote then you lose the right to complain about the government you do get. So get out there and - or spoil your ballot. Personally, I'd like to see a compulsory "none of the above" option at the bottom of all ballots. If it wins the seat, nobody is elected and everybody on the ballot is banned from public office for ten years. If "None of the above" wins the whole election, you have to restart with new candidates until we get ones the voters trust ... :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Apathy is the main problem over here Richard - the current government's track record is beyond appalling , Liz Truss should be in the tower with Boris - oops just remembered the no politics in the lounge rule.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
I recently discovered I have reason to like Liz; if it weren't for her budget, our new house would have cost £60K more! :laugh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Except here we have decay and corruption on both sides.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system. You have to vote for one of us. Man 1: He's right, this is a two-party system. Man 2: Well I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate. Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I decided not to vote this election, mainly due to despair at the Tories' failure to run a proper Conservative government. The alternatives are too awful to contemplate and we all know what is in store for us over the next five years. I doubt that my X will be missed.
It's worth voting to try and ensure an effective opposition. If the landslide is too big then they will be unopposed and then the hard left will be emboldened and it will be as bad as the hard right have been since the 2019 landslide that gave the hard right the upper hand in internal party politics. At least with centrists, corrupt or otherwise, you get some sort of livable stability where companies invest and the market behaves normally (as far as we can call traders normal). Without that stability the UK is in for years of hard right hard left ping pong between zealots and that will be benefit nobody and further condemn the UK to continue its slide into irrelevance on the international political scene.
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It's worth voting to try and ensure an effective opposition. If the landslide is too big then they will be unopposed and then the hard left will be emboldened and it will be as bad as the hard right have been since the 2019 landslide that gave the hard right the upper hand in internal party politics. At least with centrists, corrupt or otherwise, you get some sort of livable stability where companies invest and the market behaves normally (as far as we can call traders normal). Without that stability the UK is in for years of hard right hard left ping pong between zealots and that will be benefit nobody and further condemn the UK to continue its slide into irrelevance on the international political scene.
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I recently discovered I have reason to like Liz; if it weren't for her budget, our new house would have cost £60K more! :laugh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Was introduced in India about 10 years ago, as an electoral reform. Not sure whether it has made any big difference till now. But at least, there's such a choice for the voter. The Constitution of India allows any citizen to contest, and it is interesting to see that a number of candidates get lesser than NOTA itself.
In fact, in some cases, NOTA came in second!
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In fact, in some cases, NOTA came in second!
Yes, indeed.
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I figure that if you don't vote then you lose the right to complain about the government you do get. So get out there and - or spoil your ballot. Personally, I'd like to see a compulsory "none of the above" option at the bottom of all ballots. If it wins the seat, nobody is elected and everybody on the ballot is banned from public office for ten years. If "None of the above" wins the whole election, you have to restart with new candidates until we get ones the voters trust ... :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
I figure that if you don't vote then you lose the right to complain about the government you do get
I've always believed in that, even when the choices were limited to the lesser of two evils. Apathy is what leads to poor choices. I've never skipped an election since I was old enough to vote.
OriginalGriff wrote:
a compulsory "none of the above" option at the bottom of all ballots. If it wins the seat, nobody is elected and everybody on the ballot is banned from public office for ten years
Now that I like a lot, as it sends a clear message to all candidates. A big subject of discussion around here a few months ago (where I physically live, not here on CP) was how a number of mayors and politicians at various levels were quitting because they couldn't handle the constant abuse they were getting from their constituency. Consider the oldest joke in the world is that you can tell a politician is lying because his lips are moving. There's a reason people are fed up, and they only have to look inwards to find out why they're hated so much nowadays. Then they get themselves a security detail, at the expense of the same tax payers. That ain't helping.
