THEY say, whatever you vote, the Government always gets in.
Tony Benn’s said: “If one meets a powerful person, Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of you”.
How could we get rid of the Government, if we wanted to?
Say if the only parties standing were abhorrent to the electorate, how could we get rid of them?
If only 40 per cent of the electorate voted, how would anyone know what the 60 per cent would have voted. As long as there isn’t a ‘none of the above’ box to cross, on the ballot paper, that the Government cannot be said to be legitimate, as there is no way to get rid of them.
R Brown
Stroud
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