No, what pisses me off is the idea that an elected government should ever consult "the people"
Referenda are a fucking waste of time. If you don't like something you vote the other way at the next election. You express your opinion that way.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:23, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

While I agree in theory...
I'd like you to point out which party I should have voted for in order to avoid us bidding for the Olympics and any number of other shitty decisions that were acclaimed by all major parties.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:26, Reply)

BNP? UKIP?
Nope, I'm afraid MMPS is right. Dictatorship seems the only reasonable solution. After all the electorate is an arse.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:30, Reply)

I'm not going to make your decision for you
if you don't like one policy of the major parties, don't vote for them if you feel that one policy is suitably important. Vote for a tiny little party, or don't vote if you feel that's your only alternative, but the system is as it is, and since, thanks to those cunts currently in power, we now have no chance of ever changing the voting system in our lifetime, you can either accept it or leave.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:30, Reply)

Hmm..
This is, in reality what I do (either vote for minor parties with no hope in hell or spoil my ballot) but it seems odd to say "this is how it is, accept it or leave" in a notionally democratic system.

Anyway I do accept it, in the sense I'm not leaving of raising armed rebellion against it, but this does not mean I have to like it, nor that I cannot have a good winge about how shit it is when specifically asked to do so.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:39, Reply)

You fool.
You should have voted for electoral reform when you had the chance.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:43, Reply)

I did, more fool me.
Although according to Mr. TheGeordie I should not have been allowed to.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:52, Reply)

Yeah, I was pretty certain you would have done.
As I said before: the electorate is an arse.
Silly cunts will never vote in the right thing.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 12:55, Reply)

True true.
I really wonder why I bother to vote at all sometimes. mostly to prove a point to my dad I think.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:05, Reply)

There are other reasons
If you don't vote, you can't complain.
If you allow apathy to take over, then they will have won.
To do nothing would probably make you feel even worse.
I'm not offering any solutions, I know it is shit.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:17, Reply)

I stand by this
It shouldn't have been a political pissing contest it should have gone to an independent committee to look at the options and decide the best option, the fact that the government didn't like the findings of such committees is shown by their refusal to listen to them.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:49, Reply)