The question should be why would or should you vote in political elections! ‘The Guardian’ today is predicting unprecedented losses for the Labour Party. Yet the current Labour Leader won power in his party by saying no party should promote any policy that would make it ‘unelectable’. It seems now that this ideology has created the least electable party of modern voting history. Is voting in political elections ever a matter of principle in politics?

The question should be why would or should you vote in political elections! The Guardian today, with the gloomy collage below, is predicting unprecedented losses for the Labour Party. Yet the current Labour Leader won power in his party by saying no party should promote any policy that would make it ‘unelectable’. It seems now … More The question should be why would or should you vote in political elections! ‘The Guardian’ today is predicting unprecedented losses for the Labour Party. Yet the current Labour Leader won power in his party by saying no party should promote any policy that would make it ‘unelectable’. It seems now that this ideology has created the least electable party of modern voting history. Is voting in political elections ever a matter of principle in politics?

Voting may not often change anything, but we have to hope it might.

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.

Voting might matter if the system of ‘first past the post’ did not favour a retrograde two-party system.

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.