Low Voter Turnout Essay

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Our constitution is corrupt to the core, rigged to keep the out of touch, the pompous, and the self-serving minority in power, simultaneously shafting over the hard working majority of this great country. We are ruled by parasites, those fortunate enough to be born with enough money to be packed off to the 400 acres of land seemingly responsible for churning out our next leaders and ministers, preparing them to feast on the blood of 60 million people, the lives of which are completely alien when compared to their parasitical life of splendour. The same raucous, destructive, and self-entitled Bullingdon Club members, who carelessly took pleasure in wrecking restaurants, now have the chance to wreck the holy grail of our nation’s politics, the …show more content…

In fact, this substandard turnout is better than previous elections. While over a third of our population incinerate their vote, countries like Sweden with turnouts over 85%, humiliate us all. “It doesn’t matter who you vote for, The Government always wins.” This incredibly low turnout reveals a much larger problem; the opinion showed here expertly demonstrates the key problem faced by politics today. One of the main reasons for social apathy towards politics is the two party system we currently have. Having two prawn sandwiches which, while seeming different in their origin, but leave the same sour taste, has led to hundreds of thousands not voting; no real difference will be made if one is voted in over the other. PR would remove the two party system we are stuck with, giving the public a larger choice of parties to vote for, while having a real chance that they will actually get elected, not just a squandered vote against their own interests. This type of system would also bring an end to safe seats, meaning that MPs will actually have to be accountable, and act in the interests of their constituents, not just use them as a stepping stone to ministerial positions in

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