Someone on uk.politics.electoral said:-

>Don't vote, it only encourages them.

I just cannot see any logic or future in this statement whatsoever. Without 'one person one vote' (almost useless as it has admittedly proven to be over the last 20 or so years) we return to forms of feudalism - entirely helpless
rather than 'just' relatively so.

Agreed that the present devalued corporate-run state of two party 'democracy' is of no help or use to the majority of unrepresented ordinary folk and mostly damages their health, liberty and long-term well-being:

Agreed that we are now teetering daily between oligarchy and totalitarianism - mainly due to wall-to-wall corpspeak disinformation and an undiscerning apathetic mass of people who have forgotten that a real democracy has to be worked at by each individual:

Agreed that we seem helpless in the face of a two-and-a-half party kleptocracy intent on selling off all the hard won common wealth financed over the decades by our taxes (GATS being the latest piratical scam) to the highest bidder:

Agreed that nothing we do seems capable of halting the rising tide of gross govt criminality, spinelessness and negligence (DU, NMD, Climate change, BSE, TA2000, GM and related biopiracy, PFI/PPP, etc etc ad inf):

BUT ignoring our right to vote just plays directly to corporate aims and elitist hands with vested interests, like Stelzer, Krebs, Sainsbury, the megalomaniac oil men and all the shadowy bankers and other sharks with selfish unreasonable appetites who never dare show their true faces in public. Read 'Captive State' by George Monbiot if you think I am overstating the case.

Given the above, can any of us really afford NOT to vote, if only to exercise one of the very few rights left to those of us with less than a couple of million to throw at politicians to do our bidding?

Voting at the next General Selection (see sig lines) would seem to be the only viable route towards eventual direct democracy left to us in the face of almost certain corporate global hegemony, bar voting for our often wise but largely
ineffective and far too low profile Green Party
[ http://www.greenparty.org.uk/], anyway.

How much is a half page advert in the Sun? Contributors please? [¦-/

Enough ~registered~ disgust CAN tumble this repressive, venal and morally bankrupt system.

Spread the word.

mango
 http://www.environment.org.uk/activist/

NOBODY cares if you boycott the election.
NOBODY will remember you or your anger.
Don't forsake your right to vote!
When it comes to ballot time, write:-
NONE OF THE ABOVE - X

or just vote NOBODY - X

 http://uk.geocities.com/votenobody/page2.html