Compulsory voting?
The mild mannered, reasoned approach:
I'm against that. Strongly against that.
The actual response: if forced to vote,
I would spoil my ballot paper. The usual method is putting x's
against every option. My preferred method would be to:
Scrawl obscenities all over the ballot
paper, wipe my arse with it, screw it up and force it into the ballot
box, anoint the cubicle with whatever animal excreta I can smuggle in
there, and run out shouting challenges to all civil liberties
legislation that forces me to vote while I could be doing something
so much better (there are works of genius I have yet to read / see /
hear, or I could be washing my hair, either is more productive than
voting for politicians in a world where nothing has improved since
the stone age and people are still starving / stoning each other to
death / watching the great and the good nest-feather and
mate-favour). Political people fail to register that a failure to
vote (such as my choice to do so) does not necessarily represent a
failure to engage or be bothered. They (as a species) dislike the
Frank Zappa approach: “don't vote, it only encourages them”.
My lack of turnout for over thirty
years does not suggest any lack of interest on my part, just a lack
of finding anyone worth a light over that period. They're all the
same. Really. Force me to vote and I can only imagine that I'll be
more trouble than it's worth. Find me someone to side with, and it'll
be a different story, but I don't trust, respect or have time for any
of them...
...for example:
This bloke thinks learning by rote is
the way forward. He's been elected somehow. You expect me to bother
to vote? All together now...
Never take sweets from a bloke who
looks like this and wants to inflict the mistery of learning stuff
for the sake of it like education is one big memory test. Who needs
problem-solvers in this day and age, eh, Mr Gove.
If you need to remember minsters by
rote, try Mr Gove, education, was a very odd cove...
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