Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
All I can say is bring on a hung parliament! maybe the we can get some proper voting and politcal reforms.

As and aside I've always wondered what the effect would be of putting a "none of the above choice" on the ballot paper, sure you can spoil you vote but most poeple don't know about that.
Maybe if they saw that a large proportion of people only vote for them because they are the lesser evil, the major parties would actually start adopting proper political viewpoints as opposed to trying to chase as many votes as possible and ending up not really standing for anything.
A hung Parliament is going to happen, it is just who is going to be the biggest party, I still feel that is going to be Labour. A Lab/Lib coalition will hopefully tackle the voting system, but I wouldn't hold your breath. I believe we should make voting compulsery but have a 'none of the above' box. With the system we have it will cause the parties to broaden their appeal to everyone, not just the large chunk of middle class voters who do actually use their right to vote - those the option to vote for no one will be there, when in the polling booth, many people will actually vote for a party and it will mean everyone getting represented in parliament - which can only be a good thing.