Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are facing their worst ever result at the general election and could be left with just 130 seats, according to Professor Sir John Curtice.
The country’s top polling guru warned of the bleak situation faced by the Tories as they head into winter with the news dominated by infighting over the prime minister’s Rwanda deportation plan.
We’ve gotten very bad at voting. It’s not just the British, if that’s any comfort. It isn’t any comfort.
Sometimes I wonder if voting should be mandatory, like in Australia… but forcing everyone to vote doesn’t at all solve the problem of how so much of our news media is going out of their way to mislead and manipulate the voting public. Might even make things worse.
I keep seeing people whingeing about Starmer, saying they’ll never vote for him, then you get several comments down the chain and they let slip that they don’t actually bother to vote anyway. Madness.
Not to mention that despite mandatory voting, Australia has managed to have Scotty From Marketing, then the next election a party who’s entire policy could be summed up with “at least we’re not the last guy”
Exactly, the reason for my concern over mandatory voting. Also it has ‘tory’ in the word and who knows, it might Derren Brown some people into voting for them!
I didn’t used to vote when I was in my 20’s. At the time I didn’t listen to the news or watch TV. I didn’t vote because I had no idea who to vote for. Totally disconnected. It seemed a bit wrong to vote on something I know little about so I would choose not to.
If voting was mandatory it wouldn’t have changed my lack of interest or knowledge.
Thankfully I’m more engaged these days but I think there’s a lot of people out there who aren’t.
Imo a key problem we need to try and counter (as a society) is voter apathy. A lot of people just don’t care, or don’t have the energy after a long day’s work to invest in sifting through political bullshit for the nuggets of true info (understandable). Some people even take pride in their lack of interest which to me is like being proud of being stupid.
Politics affects pretty much every aspect of our lives. It drives me nuts when people whinge and whinge about the state of the country but won’t engage one iota with the process of improving things.