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Negative attitudes towards the parties
UKIP - racist, biggoted and childish. Refuge for people too stupid and/or right wing to be Tories.
Conservative - only care about the rich. Demonise anyone on any benefit and are out of touch with the concerns of real people.
Lib Dem - turncoats, will do and say whatever is necessary to get where they want to be
Labour - incompetent with the economy, will tax to death anyone with aspirations.
SNP - only care about Scotland and will screw England over with their Scotland-biased leftist policies
Plaid - a poor man's SNP
Green - arrogant middle class hypocrites, work-shy tofu-eating tree-huggers and mangy students that don't know about real life
Northern Irish Parties - hate each other and have no interest of anything outside the province
RESPECT - fringe party for non-war supporting disillusioned Labour voters, who now loathe the lib dems, think the Greens are muppets, and UKIP is too right wing
Conservative - only care about the rich. Demonise anyone on any benefit and are out of touch with the concerns of real people.
Lib Dem - turncoats, will do and say whatever is necessary to get where they want to be
Labour - incompetent with the economy, will tax to death anyone with aspirations.
SNP - only care about Scotland and will screw England over with their Scotland-biased leftist policies
Plaid - a poor man's SNP
Green - arrogant middle class hypocrites, work-shy tofu-eating tree-huggers and mangy students that don't know about real life
Northern Irish Parties - hate each other and have no interest of anything outside the province
RESPECT - fringe party for non-war supporting disillusioned Labour voters, who now loathe the lib dems, think the Greens are muppets, and UKIP is too right wing
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Really the UK does need to rethink the FPTP system in a mature way, like the Scottish Referendum?
Apart from the main 3, the only other choices are people that don't stand any chance of getting elected (waste of time) or people that want us out of Europe (I want to stay in).
The only way to win is not to play.
The main parties don't care if you vote. They'll ride the gravy train even if each mp only got one vote each (I'm assuming they'd vote for themselves).
Voting for a "no chance" party is a better protest than not voting, and as they have no chance, feel free to pick anyone of them.
I'm toying with green, who have no chance in my constituency just to show my distrust of the three main parties.
What troubles me more, is once they were in government they turned there backs on their polices and those who voted for them, I am amazed at how stable this collation government has been, I was expecting MPs from both sides but most Lib Dems to reach a breaking point and walk.
The next election I predict will be utter chaos with no easy call on which coalition of parties should be in government.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31580374
Interesting difference in reaction from both parties. A marginal win from Labour and a typical reaction from the Tories.
Cue the "if you don't vote, you have no right to complain" nonsense
In a sense it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People are so disengaged from the political process that they do not get involved in it, which just leads to them getting less involved in the political process.
Their really is only two ways to break this.
Join the political party most aligned with what you believe and change it from within
Form your own political party - although note it took the Labour Party over two decades to go from being formed to getting a sniff of power and over 40 years before it formed a majority government.
Or vote for a party that will introduce PR, whatever their other policies.
If you agree with PR (I don't) - think of the policies of the Liberals that fell by the wayside with the coalition - now imagine a system whereby you have no idea what policies will be sacrificed on the alter of being close to power. There are things both coalition parties pushed for when in opposition which they bottled when in power.
That is before you get to the weaker governments as to get anything done as they negotiate every bit of policy.
I'd rather have the policies that 2 or 3 parties agree on (representing the majority of voters) than the policies of one party voted in on a third of the vote.
Also the vast majority of voters have zero influence on the result of the election. Anyone living in a safe seat will be ignored by all parties. No wonder apathy is so high.