Are you a voter who believes in the ethos and principles of a party, but believe they won’t get in? That vote is far from ‘wasted’.
We are facing economic, social and environmental crisis so action is vital. If you never vote, you never get. Voting brings the chance to change social values from greed, selfishness and fear, and challenge 2 tier class system and privatisation.
Public demand led to alterations to the debates, resulting in the invitation of 3 parties that were considered “minor”. The public coming together and pressurising those in charge led to this change. Staying strong and voting for – and saying – what you believe in will help keep momentum for democratic changes, and community and national action.
“This is the most unpredictable general election since at least the Second World War” says Natalie Bennett. The polls are not pointing to a clear winning and the latest polls estimate only 66% will vote for either Labour or Conservatives in this election. More young voters are engaging now: new generation, new voices, new choices.
The current political system does make it unlikely for parties who have large support across the country, but not centralised in the regions dictated by the election wards. Continuing to vote for what you believe in calls for proportional representation by highlighting the injustice of the current voting system. E.g. 285616 votes per Green MP vs 33370 per Conservative MP (Green World, GW88 Spring 2015).
If we want a different kind of politics, it is in the voters hands: they can change politics for ever.
A nice summary can be found here:
“Here is the first rule of politics: if you never vote for what you want, you never get it. We are told at every election to hold our noses, forget the deficiencies and betrayals and vote Labour yet again, for fear of something worse. And there will, of course, always be something worse. So at what point should we vote for what we want rather than keep choosing between two versions of market fundamentalism? Sometime this century? Or in the next? Follow the advice of the noseholders and we will be lost forever in Labour’s Bermuda triangulation.”
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