vote early, vote often
so anyway, if the people express their distrust in you by refusing to give you a mandate, the best way to recover it is to force them to do it. twice.
Compulsory voting has been supported by Geoff Hoon, the government chief whip, because of his concern at recent low turnouts.
this is quite typical not just of New Labour, but of the political class in general. turnouts are low, and that must be a problem with voters. to correct the problem, we must correct the voters. it simply doesn't occur to Hoon that the problem is with what we are asked to vote for.
posted by Dr Zen @ 11:20 am
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Compulsory voting is a good idea so long as None of the above is an option on the ballot.
This is awful - I never voted until a few years ago. If you vote you can't complain, because you have given someone else the right to speak for you.
I sort of agree. If you vote, you are complicit. But OTOH, if you don't vote, you are not using the only tool available to you to choose which fucktard does a bunch of things you don't want done.
This isn't democracy. We will never have democracies while we accept that every four years we give someone a mandate to do whatever the fuck they choose.
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