I was just kidding but it does seem amazing though that someone could get to voting age in a 2 party country without knowing the nickname for one of those two parties. Presuming you are young and labour was responsible for your later education, I think you have your answer.
How to I decide who to vote for?
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I was just kidding but it does seem amazing though that someone could get to voting age in a 2 party country without knowing the nickname for one of those two parties. Presuming you are young and labour was responsible for your later education, I think you have your answer.
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If everyone shared your view, then yes.
"There's no point voting because Labour will get in anyway" or similar is the worst logic ever.
No, your quite off the mark. I've just never bothered reading up or paying attention to anything political, I'm sure I'm not the only person. I'm 24 and never voted, but I would like to this time round.
Fair enough that some people can go through their lives missing out information, but your head must have been taken off and plumped under a rock on Pluto if you are 24 and didn't know they were the same party.
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Fair enough that some people can go through their lives missing out information, but your head must have been taken off and plumped under a rock on Pluto if you are 24 and didn't know they were the same party.
Maybe so, looks like I learnt the hard way
In what regard am I off the mark?
Read in an article recently, most people don't really know policies of parties and just vote on what they feel at the time. There's not such a huge difference between Labour and Conservative anymore just who you feel would be best management and neither seem attractive right now, it's a bit hopeless.
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I didn't know tories = conservs until very recently, I just didnt care enough to find out.
An awful lot of people vote by habit and vote as their parents voted without any thought.
First past the post system of voting is unfair, does mean it's very likely my vote will be useless.
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See id be up for labour stopping in if we could get rid of brown
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I suggest for the greater good you just stay at home on poling day a pretend the whole thing never happened.
Or if you wish to know more why don't you watch the news, and maybe question time up until the election.
You're right, we should just let Dolph decide
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Whether it is useless or not depends entirely on your constituency - if you happen to reside in one of the close-fought marginals, your vote in the current circumstances is actually quite important.
If you're in one of the terribly one-sided constituencies, it is pretty much worthless.
That said - if half of the non-voters who thought voting was 'hopeless' came out and voted in the 'one-sided' constituencies, I suspect there would be a lot more marginal constituencies out there.
So it's worth voting - even if your chosen candidate doesn't win, because in a future election it might make your constituency seem less hopeless, and therefore prompt more people to vote, and increase the chances of your chosen candidate/party winning in the future.
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It is in your interests as an individual and citizen of a democratic society, as well as society itself, for you to become acquainted with the policies and ideologies of the relevant political parties.
My personal advice would be to read the information on websites of the three major parties (Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems) and try and get a feel for who you gravitate towards initially. Then, I would suggest you try and watch shows like The Daily Politics and Newsnight on the BBC iPlayer, to get a feel for the way that the politicians of the respective parties are behaving and explaining the policies.
When you "find yourself" politically, you'll find making these decisions and keeping abreast of current affairs and how they impact the country much easier. Politics is very much a life skill, like riding a bike. Once you work it out, it's unlikely you'll completely stop keeping on top of it, or forget how to do it altogether
Couldn't really put it better myself, have an e-cookie
Alternatively, having some sort of check in place to determine whether people are making a decision or an informed decision would suffice.
And people wonder just why I want the state to have as little ability to cascade stupidity via legislation as possible...