Well, what actually happens is they become disillusioned with the system and withdraw from it, rather than trying something else.
The main parties still retain a lot of their core voters, the floating voters who usually decide the outcomes have floated off, leaving us with hung parliaments.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:01, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

^ This.
On the plus side, our system ought to see the Greens wandering perennially at the fringe, where they can't do any harm.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:05, Reply)

They still might get my vote, which will have no bearing whatsoever on the outcome of the general election.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:08, Reply)

yeah, but you're some sort of bonkers hippy, the party would cease to exist without your lot.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:14, Reply)

I'd slag you off for this, but I tend to throw my vote away on the local Trots.
Glass houses, and all that.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:16, Reply)