How else do you show them if you don't like their policies? They can at least see where movement is towards.
2007-01-02 20:16:37 · 16 answers · asked by Barbara Doll to you 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Not if everybody votes for a fourth party.
The problem is the current system has a massive bias built in. Currently this bias is a 60 built in majority for labour, in the 80's the built in majority was for the tories.
The boundry commision sets the boundries based on the known voting habits of the electorate. This massively skews the results of an election and is not fair nor equitable. This means it is far more difficult for third/fourth etc parties to get any meaningful representation. These smaller parties need to get a far greater share of the vote to get the same representation, than the main parties.
So, although it is a lot harder to elect a lower party to office, it is now ever more necessary that we do. The main three are all about representing foreign interests in Britain. They pay lip service to the environment, lie about the war on terror and are all wanting to take baby steps towards a totalitarian police state on a global scale.
If the electorate as a whole believe that a vote for a smaller party is a wasted vote, then we are dommed to keep electing partied that take us for granted and abuse us at every turn. Effectively an elective dictatorship.
If however the elctorate can be made to see that the only salvage for the UK is in smaller parties, and although difficult, that if enough of us vote for them, then we CAN make a difference, then maybe there is hope for a peaceful revolution in these Isles.
However, when peacefull change becomes impossible, violent change becomes inevitable.
2007-01-03 00:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by kenhallonthenet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres really no wasted vote on the List seats. AMS was made like that. Only 4% is needed to return one MSP in the List. A wasted vote is really only for the constituency vote in FPTP or the first vote in AMS. If your constituency was a Labour heart land, it would be pointless of you voting Torry, as they could and would never win the constituency vote, but may well win at least one List seat. (FPTP - First Past The Post - the most votes win, even if it is by 1 vote. My constituency MSP is a Torry in Holyrood, but only won by 99 votes. AMS - Additional Member System - Used in the Scottish Parliament, where there are a few "List" seats, where you choose a party in a large region, E.g. the entire South of Scotland)
2016-05-22 22:16:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not, how would you ever change things if the big three parties in the UK knew they had the field to themselves.
This is particularly so at the present time when all three main parties propose very similar policies.
Only one party in Britain has policies that offer a real alternative, that will get us out of the shackles of the EU, simplify taxation, tackle immigration and put the justice system in order and that is UKIP, which for those people who are not very well informed is not a racist bunch of thugs as per the BNP but a respectable, civilised political party.
2007-01-02 20:32:03 · answer #3 · answered by Barrie G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NOT using your vote is a wasted vote.I will NOT be voting for any of the three main parties as they stand for the same thing. Every vote counts! At least I will get off my bottom and use my right to vote,unlike many in the UK who think its up to everyone else!!
2007-01-02 22:12:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. If they are the one you want to get in. But if it is one of the smaller party's it may mean you don't get them in Parliament. Even if this is the case it doesn't make your vote wasted. For example, all the major party's have had to take into account the policy's of the Green party, and devise green policy's of their own.
2007-01-02 22:04:26 · answer #5 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It certainly is NOT a wasted vote. I don't like the Tories nor the Liberals and Tony Blair has let me down and so I will be voting Green next time. This will show all the mainstream parties that I do not agree with their policies.
2007-01-02 20:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by The Alchemist 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No as a matter of fact a halfhearted vote for the big two is a lie. No change comes without first the stand. No one stops doing things altruistically (not in politics anyways) WE NEED TO STAND UP!!! COBB IN '08
2007-01-02 20:22:13 · answer #7 · answered by erinbrae_erinnbree 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no.. voting for a smaller party may only raise awareness but it shows you have put some thought into it as opposed o the large numbers who would like to vote but use the "whats the point they'll never get in". thats a lousy attitude.
use your vote for those who float your boat or tactically to refute another party
2007-01-02 20:52:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that would be the way to show both parties that we are sick of thier incompetency! We need change! We want change! And by god we are voting for change! might be just the ticket we need to make the govenment a voice of the people again!
2007-01-02 21:40:58 · answer #9 · answered by wondermom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i have no confidence in any of the major political parties here in the uk. i will not vote for any of them. so in order to prove my point, i will now vote for a party i feel quite confident will not get in. then i will persoanlly write a letter to all the leaders of the major political parties spelling out why they did not get my vote.
2007-01-02 20:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋