Non voter

I believe it’s important to vote for someone, even if it’s the least worst option, but I think the arguments for and against are not always clear cut in today’s world. I also believe it’s is important to offer financial protection and a living income to those who are unable to do any work through sickness or disability. It is sickening how society has demonised these people.

I believe it’s important to vote for someone, even if it’s the least worst option, but I think the arguments for and against are not always clear cut in today’s world. I also believe it’s is important to offer financial protection and a living income to those who are unable to do any work through sickness or disability. It is sickening how society has demonised these people.

I look around at the candidates available to us, you've got to think of national interests as well as local ones, if we're lucky we might get a very good constituency MP, if we're unlucky we're get a good constituency MP who's a member of a party who's overall strategy is one that you can't find any common ground with, then what do you do?

I think society has always demonised the sick and disabled, at best we get some kind of patronising sympathy and patted on the head, at worst not believed and/or told we have some karmic issues.

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I do understand about all the people who fought and died so we could live in a democratic country, but I wonder what those people would say if they could see what that hard earned democracy has become? We seem to have swapped having aristocrats as MP's for lawyers and professional politicians, how many "ordinary" people are in parliament, how are different elements in society represented? I don't think those people just fought for the right to vote, but for everything that goes with it.  My parents generation were children during WW2, although all my Dad siblings saw actice service and both sets of grandparents, did thier part too, after the war they were promised a brave new world where they paid this new tax, NI, and they would be cared for, they have a pension, didn't have to worry about being sick, not only would the be able to access medical care free at the point of use, but sick pay to tide them over and long term sick pay if they didn't recover. A couple of years before he died, when we were at the heart of austerity and political choices were being made to punish the less well off and the council services they used, and the co-option of our war dead for dubious party political propaganda, he burst out with 'WE DIDN'T GO THROUGH ALL THAT FOR THIS!'.

Voting is enabling a corrupt system that needs to collapse under the weight of its own corruption and is too corrupt beyond repair to ever again be fit for purpose, regardless of who one votes for, it makes no difference any more - if voting really did anything useful, voting would be illegal - democracy is deception, illusion and delusion - there is no political nor democratic solution - I used to believe in democracy and the democratic process, the courts etc, before Covid in 2020, but during 2022, I gradually realised that it was all a total sham and a total con - my native Ireland is very close to total collapse long before the U.K. and besides, we are far closer than ever to a global nuke war than we have ever been during the Cold War with so many other hostile nuke nations hostile to the west having nukes and they are not afraid to use them - if any attempt is made by NATO or the CCP to invade Russia after its defeat in Ukraine, even if Putin and/or his generals are removed from power, Russia’s nukes are on an automatic firing system and despite what they said to Russia and everyone else, if it suits them, the CCP will fire its nukes at the West if they feel it’s to their advantage