Quote DHM="DHM"So you can force people to wear a seatbelt in a car or a crash helmet on a motorbike but you can't compel people to engage in the single most important decisions we make about the country we live in? Look at the voting pattern on page 10, it's pretty straighforward, the older you are the more likely you are to vote and the more well off you are the more likely to vote. The turnout amongst 18-24 year olds is truly pathetic, when I first got the vote I was proud to cast it. If I can find this out in 30 seconds and political strategists paid huge salaries are employed by all the main parties it's no surprise that policies that benefit or attract the votes of people who actually get of their bums and vote are prioritised. www.electoral-reform.org.uk/imag ... 93b87a.pdf'" t wouldn't be the most important decision that we make as a country if 40% are only doing it to avoid a fine. It would be an important decision for the 60%, only for that decision to be undermined by the 40% voting for the latest incarnation of Screaming Lord Such

Quote DHM="DHM"So you can force people to wear a seatbelt in a car or a crash helmet on a motorbike but you can't compel people to engage in the single most important decisions we make about the country we live in? Look at the voting pattern on page 10, it's pretty straighforward, the older you are the more likely you are to vote and the more well off you are the more likely to vote. The turnout amongst 18-24 year olds is truly pathetic, when I first got the vote I was proud to cast it. If I can find this out in 30 seconds and political strategists paid huge salaries are employed by all the main parties it's no surprise that policies that benefit or attract the votes of people who actually get of their bums and vote are prioritised. www.electoral-reform.org.uk/imag ... 93b87a.pdf'" t wouldn't be the most important decision that we make as a country if 40% are only doing it to avoid a fine. It would be an important decision for the 60%, only for that decision to be undermined by the 40% voting for the latest incarnation of Screaming Lord Such

enforced voting?

no thanks

Aren't UKIP a small time National Front - type organisation though??.....

Ssshhhh don't burst his bubble...

As I said earlier: fascists who shop at M&S and Waitrose

Not in my opinion

You wasn't joking when you said you hadn't read their manifesto, was you??....

Sigh, there is a massive difference between a right wing populist party and a fascist neo-nazi party. By your logic, the Labour party are communists.

I think you'll find there a lot closer to the party that you decided to cast your vote for.

Cute.

Would have been more credible if they could have resisted putting the legalising rape in marriage on there.

EDIT:

I'm not some kind of self appointed ukip defender, like I say I don't like any politicians or their parties but I feel Ukip are being hailed as the antichrist by the mainstream parties and left wing, when in reality they're all as bad as each other.

Don't judge the rest of the population by your own standards.

If people know they are going to vote then they will more than likely take an interest in what they are voting for.