Vocal Voices

I didn't remember to vote yesterday, but to be honest, I wasn't very interested.

I'm beginning to think that the whole voting systems, for local and for Government elections,
needs a good overhauling. For a start, why do we need so many councillors, and so many MPs ?
If we had one MP per county, surely that would be enough?

And as for Police Commissioners, why do they have to represent political parties?
Come to that, Why do they have to be selected by a public election? This is ridiculous, IMO.

What do you think?

I added the name Donald Duck to the PCC paper then put a cross next to it. Their elections were only held on the same day as the councillors' to make it look as though people cared.

Local and National government in the UK is too large. We do not need so many councillors, MPs or Lords.

Workingman wrote:I added the name Donald Duck to the PCC paper then put a cross next to it.

I like it.

Well I voted, and for both the local elections and the Police and Crime Commissioner. I don't think you have the right to complain about things unless you join in and vote Apathy never changed anything

Kaz wrote:Well I voted, and for both the local elections and the Police and Crime Commissioner. I don't think you have the right to complain about things unless you join in and vote Apathy never changed anything

Always been my argument as well, Kaz. Spoiled ballots count and more of us should use them instead of not turning up.

That's true enough

Failing to vote people get what they deserve. As for Sadiq Khan becoming Mayor to me it was a foregone conclusion.Every Muslim in the UK will have ensured they voted for him.

Kate. Only Londoners could vote for the Mayor! Plenty of non-muslim Londoners will have voted for him, for his stance on affordable housing as much as anything! The idea of Zac Goldsmith, yet another very rich Eton-educated posh boy, the offspring of the man who founded UKIP, was too much for ordinary Londoners to stomach!

Kaz wrote:Well I voted, and for both the local elections and the Police and Crime Commissioner. I don't think you have the right to complain about things unless you join in and vote Apathy never changed anything

Well, I voted as well, but TBH, there's about as much chance of my preferred candidates getting elected as me winning the National Lottery ...

Kaz wrote:I don't think you have the right to complain about things unless you join in and vote Apathy never changed anything

I would always have agreed with that - but in view of the government we have ended up with here, finally, after over three months of dillydallying, nods, winks, bargaining, self-interest, extreme parish pump politicking and almost total concentration on one issue, I have no idea on how I will vote in the next general election which we will surely have within a year