What's Your Vote Really Worth?

[Kari-On]

Mine is worth 0.005 of a vote

https://www.voterpower.org.uk/

[Benno]

It's 4am and I'm feeling like posting something controversial that will piss people off. People of Britain, your votes are worth nothing. Not only because of the terrible electoral system we have.

I am of the opinion that votes are worthless if the voter has no power to enforce his vote.

In other words, if the voter doesn't own a gun. If the voter is unarmed.

In order to be truly democratic, the voters need to be able to have their say through voting. But what is a vote and what does voting hope to achieve? A vote is just an idea, a meaningless tick on a meaningless piece of paper. It can be ignored, the promises made in order to secure the vote can be broken, an election can be fraudulent. But when the voters are armed their votes have a foundation of power. Why do we do what the government says? Because it has the power to punish us if we don't. Why does the government do what we say? Hmm. Often it doesn't, does it? Oh golly no! The media will criticise them! The media, who totally represent public opinion and aren't simply dictating to the public what public opinion is!

An unarmed voter is a powerless voter, we live in a tyranny that is apparently less of a tyranny once every 5 years. This is part of my philosophical argument for gun ownership.


Anyway, apologies for going on a rant in your thread OP. Please Kari-On.
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[Lord Percy]

This week it's been the student union leadership elections. Or something like that. I'm not actually sure. It's just a load of people in the central square of the campus with big banners and colourful t-shirts asking people to vote for them. No-one really has a fucking clue what the whole thing is about.

Microcosm of modern politics!

[DrSnoosnoo]

[G]

[Rogerborg]

0.033, "ultra safe". I just spoil my FPTP ballots.

The thing is, whichever monkey nuScotchLabur pin a red rosette on tends to get very close to a plurality of the vote, so it is (almost) representative of the electorate in my area. Welcome to the tyranny of the (near) majority.
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[lihp]

0.330

[daemonoid]

[smegballs]

[daemonoid]

[fatpies]

0.600


Therefore I have the power to vote for one scum bag or another scum bag both of which have their strings pulled by the same corporate masters who pay them bribes.
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[groovylee]

0.077


Meh.
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[mr jamez]

0.771

Muhaha, grovel peasants
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I wanna know what Korns is.

Bet it can't be represented in either yellow or green blobs .

[DrDonnyBrago]

0.218.


Not all is lost though, I'm moving house...


0.096... balls.

[CaNsA]

In Bootle, one person does not really have one vote, they have the equivalent of 0.003 votes.

[ScaredyCat]

How much are you offering?
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[swampy]

0.919 bitches... or 3.64x the voting power of the average prole...
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[Knightsy]

As an immigrant? Fuck all

Don't think I'm missing much from the looks of it though
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[Benno]

[smegballs]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

0.077, a solid conservative seat. Meh.
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[daemonoid]

[-Matt-]

Oh dear.

It appears relocating has raped me of any political influence.

Previously in Bristol 1.003

Now in Bournemouth 0.221

There goes my chances of deciding which colour tie gets to piss away my taxes

[Benno]