Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

The "first past the post" system is a disgrace. For one thing it means that many people are not represented in parliment, for another thing many people who would vote for a party are put off because they (rightly) feel that they would waste their vote if they did vote the way that their heart tells them that they should.

Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

We are stuck with it for the foreseeable future.

Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

We need to be STUCK with nothing. If the Lib Dems make a change to PR an essential part of any future alliance then this disgusting system could be changed.

As the EU moves towards becoming a United States of Europe it is probable that legislation will be forced on Britain to drag its hopelessly undemocratic electoral system into the 21st. Century.

Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

That might just be what we need to initiate a revolution in the UK - the thought of being taken over by corrupt EU bureaucrats in a superstate that we have never been given the opportunity to vote for or against. Edward Heath took us into the Common Market in 1973 and the Wilson government's referendum in 1975 confirmed this decision. The only mandate any government has ever sought from the UK electorate was to join a common market not a single currency, not a single state, not a single legislative body.
Most of our privileged political class LOVE the EU while many ordinary people have suffered under its various insanities. How many small businesses went under as a result of the ridiculous London Low Emission Zone which forced thousands of small businesses to scrap their perfectly functional vans and buses due to a totally random emission limit imposed by EU functionaries. Hopefully the EU will self-destruct before we are forced to "integrate" further with its totally corrupt system. If the EU was a company or a charity, those who run it would have been imprisoned years ago. This is a body whose accounts haven't been signed off by the European Court of Auditors for 14 years.
More details of the widespread EU corruption and fraud here - http://www.democracymovementsurrey.co.uk/dyk_waste.html

No wonder UKIP, despite being largely the domain of right wing fruitcakes, is beginning to take off in the UK.

Mick

Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

We are Mall, a coalition government for a very long time, next time I am convinced it will be a 3 horse race, with UKip and Labour leading the way, and needing the backing of the third place party, which I suspect is Tory, but we shall have to wait and see.
I think it is time for a pensioners party, there are more of us than the others like.

Arfa

Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

Should someone who is a Taxpayer, who financially supports a spouse who has fallen out of the tax system, through unemployment, ill health, etc, etc, be entitled to two votes?.

Re: Who should be entitled to vote?

Possibly.