Then vote no by adding your

Tim Carpenter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:16:43 +0000

Then vote no by adding your own box to the ballot paper and putting a cross into it.

It will be recorded as a spoilt ballot. It will not be brushed aside as "apathy" or an excuse to come up with bogus, fraudulent alternatives to voting.

60% of votes cast in Zimbabwe were spoilt ballots.

400,000 (half of Ken Livingstone first choicers) were spoilt ballots.

It depresses the hell out of me...

Jock — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:17:42 +0000

...to think that, in a few short weeks , it looks possible that party activists of all political colours will be expected to trudge the streets once again asking people to believe a lot of spin, unachievable promises and heartfelt apologies and vote for for a "change", or maybe that should just be "vote, for a change".

Actually, I tell a lie, it doesn't completely overwhelm me. Sometimes there is a little frisson of excitement at the possibility that the people of Britain might just once collectively call time on this comfy carousel of political clap-trap. Just say no! as the song went...

No, Gordon! No, Dave! No, Jack, Hillary, Harriet or whoever! No, not even you Nick!

We've had quite enough for these past decades, nay centuries, of being shunted up the gary glitter by folk who think they know better than us but whose ambitions so clearly exceed their abilities.

What would happen if we all got up one "Good Morning" Polling Day and simply voted "no"? At what point would the Westminster clique conclude they had completely lost our confidence and call a halt to their corruption and crookery? Or at what point can we refuse, with impunity, to submit to their authority?

And then, how do we create a new, bottom up, rather than up its own arse, democracy? This has much to commend it.

gordon brown

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