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#Starmer #LabourParty It seems they are intent on doing all they can to make me a non voter. Their stance on welfare is my primary reason for believing that. Yes the Tories and Reform would be even worse,but I need more than just 'at least they're not as bad' to cast a future vote for Labour. I need to know they genuinely care about the disabled and/or vulnerable...That they're not going to punish them for the bad and irresponsible behaviour of those far more fortunate in life. Sadly the signs are far from good. Voting for a Labour party that regards bullying the disabled and/or vulnerable as an acceptable way of proving how competent, and strong, it is, doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

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  • I vote in every election I am entitled to vote in, because I know that others fought and died, were imprisoned, transported or tortured, like the Suffragettes, to ensure that universal adult suffrage became possible. I would feel too guilty to do otherwise.

  • in reply to Martin

    I did it for that reason too, for decades. But at the last general election, there was no party whose policies I agreed with and I after decades of seeing what they do after they get into office, having promised us jam tomorrow and then tomorrow never comes, I'm sick of them all and sick of wasting my time.

    If we ever get proportional representation, so that my vote will definitely count, and get parties that actually offer something different, I might consider starting voting again.

  • in reply to Lotus

    In 2011 there was a nationwide referendum on PR and it was rejected by 67.90% to 32.10%. Hard to fathom so many people voting against their own self-interest, misinformation like Brexit, I guess.

  • in reply to Martin

    There are many ways of implementing PR.

    Scottish local elections use single transferable vote which is very complex and not very transparent but possibly decent.

    Holyrood elections use a system where we have two votes - one for a local MSP and one where regional MSPs are selected from a list. But the outcome of this is that the great majority of Scots have been unrepresented at Holyrood for 18 years.

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  • in reply to Martin

    There are many ways of implementing PR.

    Scottish local elections use single transferable vote which is very complex and not very transparent but possibly decent.

    Holyrood elections use a system where we have two votes - one for a local MSP and one where regional MSPs are selected from a list. But the outcome of this is that the great majority of Scots have been unrepresented at Holyrood for 18 years.

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