Would Anyone Vote Labour ?
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THAT will sort them all out! Wish I'd thought of it before.
That'll teach them. I can just see them now sitting up in Westminster, looking at your ballot paper....
You utter idiot.
You're a waste of a vote.
ts'. on it.THAT will sort them all out! Wish I'd thought of it before.
That'll teach them. I can just see them now sitting up in Westminster, looking at your ballot paper....
You utter idiot.
You're a waste of a vote.
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What would be better would be the option 'None of the above' as Ali Barber suggested. At which point ALL candidates on the paper would be banned from standing for any public office again. 
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It's not meant to 'teach them', still less 'sort them all out', it's an opinion; that much ought to be obvious. Strange as it may seem to someone at the centre of the decision-making process, someone whose every word shakes the Westminster Village, nor have I ever been under the impression that the average politician would ever give a flying toss for my or anyone else's opinion, no matter how eloquently stated or intellectually coherent, unless it agreed with his existing prejudices or was likely to get him re-elected. While it's true that there are independent-minded politicians who refuse to conform to the party line and prevailing fashion, a good look at the current register would suggest that they're rather rare.
Outside of referenda - where the choice is between approval or disapproval of a particular law or policy - voting only works when there are people worth voting for, citizens of considerable intellect, experience and wisdom, and an electorate capable of distinguishing between them and the maniacal fraudsters, liars and buffoons who are inevitably attracted to popularity contests. Of course, if you're suggesting that we live in such a happy land, feel free to show your workings. In your own time.
If not, feel free to explain who we're supposed to vote for when none of the parties represents our opinions, and what value a vote has when incumbents can use money, a party machine and a compliant media to squeeze out less well funded independent candidates.
Or failing that, just go straight back to rant mode. You weren't flying Tone's heli that day were you ? Plenty of his mates have more than one job.
