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Post by sitelmun on Nov 20, 2011 13:17:19 GMT
I have no time for politics myself. Don't vote, never have, never will. I've had some conversations with people who love their politics who get really annoyed with poeople like me who don't vote. They say I'm being irresponsible. That's not true. They're being strung along by politicians who don't really give a crap about anything except power and they think they're being responsible by getting involved in all of that. It's a complete waste of time.
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B
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Post by B on Nov 20, 2011 14:58:03 GMT
Hm, it would depend on what country I am a citizen of? Where are you?
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Post by waymarker on Nov 21, 2011 6:56:25 GMT
I've never voted in my life because none of the big Parties and candidates have impressed me enough to win my vote. People say "but you MUST vote for SOMEBODY, it's your duty!", but I stand firm and tell them "Hell will freeze before I vote for a fool!"
"Which is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"- Obi Wan Kenobi
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Post by cotillion on Nov 21, 2011 8:48:16 GMT
Sometimes. However, I previously lived in an area which was divided between Conservative and Liberal Democrat support, both at the constituency level and below. If you wanted to vote out the Tories, you had to turn to the Lib Dems and vice versa.
Given the current state of affairs in the UK, voting in my old area seemed rather...pointless.
And in my current constituency...well, it would not be unfair to call this a "Labour stronghold". When the last MP left the party due to the Iraq War, he was voted out by a large amount in favour of a Labour candidate who approved of the war (and, indeed, every crackpot New Labour initiative undertaken in the name of "security"). Despite a number of errors and hypocritical actions she has undertaken since then, she nevertheless commands a majority of the vote in this district.
There was a rather good website which was passed around during the 2010 election, which showed how much your vote was "really" worth, giving it extra weight if you were in a contested seat and so on. As I recall, when my vote was processed, it turned out I actually had 0.27 of a vote, due to safe seat factors and how my constituency affected the composition of Parliament.
That said, I do vote when I think it will matter, or to express disapproval with something. I don't believe it will necessarily translate into action, but that is, I believe, the purpose of activism and lobbying.
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Post by Bayes on Nov 22, 2011 18:38:20 GMT
Voting takes almost no time. Sure I vote. I don't expect it to change anything, although sometimes it does when I am voting for a local candidate or on an initiative.
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Post by xXx_[SSJ] St. Drizzt_xXx on Nov 26, 2011 18:44:42 GMT
I vote!
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