Voting for myself and my husband This is a second go at the same prompt, only shortly after the first. However, on that occasion, the prompt question failed to appear in the blog (see it here). It is a kind of follow-up to that last posting, and another, that deal with being the Green candiate for … More Voting Green for myself and my husband
The answer is YES. but neither person nor party can give any guarantee of fulfilling any intentions you had in voting for them, even if you had any intentions. Indirect democratic politics is a blunt tool that is barely even a record of popular opinion and few ruling parties receive a majority of votes in … More Voting may not often change anything, but we have to hope it might.
Blurring out the voter in the interest of stasis and parties who want only it. Today there are we are told local elections. I cannot remember when I was last asked to vote for local Councillors and today in Durham the only people up for election are for Mayoral candidates for the North East region … More Voting might matter if the system of ‘first past the post’ did not favour a retrograde two-party system.
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