Voting Or Not As The Case May Be

Just a quick update on my reasons for not voting if I don't see a candidate/party deserving of my vote.

People say if you don't vote you'll just let the Tories back in. But this creates a statemate, a two party flip from Tory to Labour and back again, with some spineless Libdem thrown in for good parasitical measure. 

I used to feel the same - if you don't vote you have no right to complain. But that isn't true any more, and perhaps never was in my lifetime. The whole electoral process is a sham, a floor show to keep us plebs quietly suppressed. We think we are actively taking part in a democratic process when in fact we are simply allowing the main parties to pull the wool over. We get leaflets a few weeks before election time, glossy A5 pieces of paper with photographs of people we may or may not have heard of before, telling us how wonderful our lives will be if we'd just have the sense to vote for them. Vote for Nigel's lot and keep the foreigners out, vote for Cameron's lot and stop the spongers leaching off the hardworking majority, vote for Miliband's lot and, well, watch him cut things more gently. Oh, and vote for Clegg's lot and wonder which side they will piggy back on at the next general election.

The whole voting and petition signing thing just keeps us busy, heads down, doing our bit to keep society running smoothly. So we think. But no, it's to keep our attention away from the real alternatives; a fair and just socialist society, a different voting system, and using our brains to investigate and question what these politicians are really up to. While we are busy filling in petitions to stop this and ban that, the Tories are sitting in their offices smirking and rubbing their hands with glee. "They'll fall for anything, that lot" they're thinking. I wouldn't be surprised to discover that some of those poignant petitions were created by Tory funded think tanks in the first place.