[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, but if those you elect via the democratic process then go on to do just what they want, following their own agenda, rather than that they were elected on, then the ballot box has failed...and this why there is so much apathy over voting...because voting changes little...so then people think, 'why am I doing this..it is a fruitless exercise' and they don't vote.

Even if voting were made compulsory...it would not change things....and much of this is because the parties have become so similar that it is hard to put a sheet of Bronco between them.....when I say the parties are similar, I don't mean their ideologies are similar(even though over the years the demarcation has become blurred), but that politics has becoem a career for greedy, self serving, men and women...who care little for the will of their constituents/electorate.
Or certainly, that is how it is seen.

They preach at us but make very few real decisive decisions....and the government we have now, does not have a majority...and neither did the last government........this is because some people didn't vote, or spoiled their paper or cast a vote for a party that had no chance of ever being elected as a protest against the main three parties.
The majority of the people in this country did not vote for the shower that we have running the country at the moment.

So the ballot box doesn't work....alas, I have no solutions that would solve the problem......other than a few barrels of gunpowder and a man with a mission(GF).