Who am I going to vote for?

Why I am not going to Vote Today

A lot of people, more so than usual this year, have been asking me who I am going to vote for in the general election. I also can not believe why people get so irate and upset when i tell them that I'm not going to vote this year.

They always ask me "why" and "ohh thats so bad", but why is it so bad that I don't want to vote. People came up with stupid ridiculous arguments such as "It is your right to vote and you should use it" but unlike some other countries such as Australia it is also my right not to vote and I choose to use that right instead!

I know this is not an amazing source, but Jason Manford tweeted earlier today a website where you could work how much your vote was actually worth compared to where you live. It was fasinating to look at and i will post a link at the bottom of this Post. Apparently because the town where I live is so Conservatively biased (they have been voted in the last three terms) my vote for any opposition would count for 0.182 of a vote, that's 18% of a full vote, that's less than one quarter! How stupid is that, apparently the average UK voter has 1.39 times more voting power than I do! This all comes down to where I live as it is not a marginal constituency. But I agree this is not a very good reason not to vote, you should use your vote (if you want to) no matter how small, even if it is basically nothing (like mine), but this is not the main reason why i am not going to vote today.

I consider myself a fairly well educated person who has an all be it vague knowledge of British Politics, and I hate that because I don't want to vote people lump me in the same bracket as the lazy wankers who cant be bothered to get up and vote or the uneducated masses who wouldnt know a ballot paper from their left elbow, and i resent this. If I don't like any of the parties running or what they stand for or even the leaders of those parties as individuals why should I be forced to vote for one of them, why should i essentially give them my support? A vote is a singular entity, its a 100% mark, you cant give one line of your x to Labour and another to BNP, you have to give the whole x to one party, which implies that you agree with them outright and disagree with what all the other parties have to say! This I feel is not right and I don't want to give my whole vote to one party as I, for one, do not agree with the whole of any parties manifesto at all!

In a  perfect world... I would go and vote and select the 'none of the above' box and put my x right in the middle of it!

In fact I have decided to keep people happy I am going to go to the poling station tonight sign in, get my paper and just scribble all over it as I feel this should make a small point, 0.182 of a whole point!

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As a sub note.... To all you people who are saying I can not complain about politics for 5 years, if the party you voted for wins and makes a bad decision, I will not listen to your complaints and moans either, because remember, because you voted them in! I voted for no one, which means I can moan as much as I like!