British Apathy About Voting

[robert551069]

1..I think that more people would vote if everybody was given the opportunity to vote by post.
2. Compulsory voting is not the answer.

[emmie]

you are allowed to vote by post, i do.

[BlueToffee]

In almost 50 years I have rarely missed voting.

However, OH and I have received voting cards for next Thursday's Police Commisioner, alas, not a single word from any of the candidates, if indeed there are any in our area.

How then am I able to make a choice for nothing but a name with probably nothing more than a party tag attached?

I, nor the OH, will be voting on this occasion.

[bibblebub]

BlueToffee - you can go to http://www.choosemypc...andrew-james-canning/ and find out about the candidates. This web address is given on the polling cards that we have been sent here in Dorset.

[bibblebub]

http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/ is the home page for the site

[aelmpvw]

I'm a labour supporter living in a tory stronghold so my vote would be wasted if I made one

[cazzz1975]

I have just looked at my local candidates, they are all promising pretty much the same thing.

[Duncer]

The amount of career politicians who are totally out of touch with the needs of the "average" person, (if there can be such a thing?), has a lot to do with the apathy, in my opinion.

Sometimes I think it is paramount to a choice between a punch in the mouth or a kick in the Henry Halls.

[boxtops]

I feel the same as Toffee - why should I go foraging about on the internet to find out about the candidates? if they want me to vote for them, they can come to me (or at least mailshot me). I've had one letter from the bloke I thought I'd vote for anyway - nothing from the others. I'll either vote for him or not at all - the whole exercise is a waste of time and money.

[Duncer]

Too many of these university educated careerists expect us to vote for the party, and it has been a very long time since any prospective candidate has knocked my door, even in council elections. If they can't make the effort then why should their prospective voters? I still vote, but only because I am in the polling station anyway, as I feel that Labour has moved so far towards the centre as to be almost synonymous with a now mosty centrally based Conservative party.

Yes, they do have differences, but I struggle to see men or women of principle in either party and the policies are too similar to excite me. The Liberals are a waste of space and the minority parties will never achieve anything.

Hope my positive outlook will encourage others to vote?