Compulsory Voting: Yes or No?

[blue for life]

Funny how this shower of twats don’t apply the same 50% turnout threshold for MPs, councillors, mayors etc.

Trade Union Act measures come into force to protect people from undemocratic industrial action

Measures coming into force today (1 March 2017) will protect millions of people from the effects of undemocratic strike action

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Couldn’t agree more. That’s why the Tories are a bunch of cunts. Double standards when it suits. If they want to implement this then it should be the same across the board.

 

[roypaulknewmyfather]

A little while back I posted a question I'd sent to my local MP about low turnouts and how they might be changed to decent turnouts. I asked him if he thought another box on the ballot paper which said

None of the above, they don't represent my views

and if checked it counted so that an overall pattern could be seen of the number of dissatisfied voters there are in each constituency. It might make them adapt their approach to satisfy voters.
Pie in the sky I know, he replied it was "absolute nonsense" but candidates climbing on the gravy train with the backing of possibly 30% of the potential vote is absolute nonsense in my view as well.

 

[yerwot?]

imho, it will take a General Strike to drag the country from the clutches of a small bunch of billionaire string-pullers with immense power. Often due to wealth inherited from their slave-trading ancestors. bastards. Pre johnson a g.s. was out of the question; not now, the blatant lies of brexit are plain, the constant attacks on the NHS, and wages, and abject failure of the privatised essential services and all the rest of the damage being done to the standard of living of the over-whelming majority. Democracy being replaced by fascism, the tory dream, can only end one way

 

[BrianW]

I have voted in every election since I first qualified. I am struggling the find the enthusiasm to vote in the future. My constituency is Labour/Tory and both are ****s. Any other vote is just a gesture. FPTP is a joke of a voting system and needs replacing.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

imho, it will take a General Strike to drag the country from the clutches of a small bunch of billionaire string-pullers with immense power. Often due to wealth inherited from their slave-trading ancestors. bastards. Pre johnson a g.s. was out of the question; not now, the blatant lies of brexit are plain, the constant attacks on the NHS, and wages, and abject failure of the privatised essential services and all the rest of the damage being done to the standard of living of the over-whelming majority. Democracy being replaced by fascism, the tory dream, can only end one way

Yet our media tell us its all a success. Brexit = success OMG not ecven brexiteers are owning that one.

Good video here



Voting is just not worth it. Someone else is weaponising the mindless voters of this country and we cant beat that.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

And here is a more explicit report on the situation with media in this country. And to all those BBC haters, careful what you wish for, you may just end up like the US with Fox news dictating most of our political knowledge.

Media Reform Coalition

Media Reform coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.

www.mediareform.org.uk

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Isn’t the point of democracy that you have a choice?

 

[WestGorton]

No

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

In the USA - it's not so much a matter of how many end up voting - it's all about how much the system is rigged to make some votes count more than others (jerrymandering, the existence of a Senate, voter suppression laws, the all-or-none Judicial College system used by most states) and about the closed primary voting system (Democrats by-in-large cannot vote in so-called primaries where a Republican candidate is selected and vice-versa).

Compulsory voting? It mostly won't affect the above problems.

I'd be in favor of a system where you were given secure online rights to vote and you could abstain on candidates/measures if you wanted. And where you could simply not respond if that was your wish. In other words a system where, if you wanted, you could easily vote. Or if you wanted, you could choose not to vote.

So I guess I'm not in favor of compulsory voting.

 

[kaz7]

My vote is worthless given where i live , geriatric central is never goung to turn against the tories , i do vote but it is pretty pointless really