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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
and with reference to that article, isn't it what many of us have been saying for such a long time...that the major parties hold the electorate in contempt, and yet dyed in the wool Labour/tory supporters still flock to vote for the party which despises them and treats them like lackeys.
Isn't this why democracy(if ever there was such a thing) is treated with suspicion, isn't it why the levels of voters have fallen at each election...it isn't apathy, but distrust of the political system.
If you feel that your vote means nothing, will change nothing, then why would you give it to a party that values it so lightly? Promises much and delivers nothing...or certainly nothing that was promised to them(EU referendum).
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I take your point Margaret, but you really shouldn't use this muppet to evidence your argument.
Peter Hitchens found his niche at the Daily Mail.
The archetypical bandwagon jumper, so many things are incorrect or skewed in that piece. The simple fact that C'mon used him as an argument should be clanging alarm bells. It's a typical rabble rousing Daily Mail invective.
As an example, look at his first paragraph 'How long does it take for the penny to drop? It is amazing how slow voters have been to see that the two major parties have been stolen from them, and are now their enemies'
Answer...for most of us the penny dropped a long while before he wrote this piece, hence the drop in people voting for the past 20 years..just where has he been living?
Don't forget this is the guy who said that sex education was responsible for teenage pregnancy and STD's....
