TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE.

I always remember when I was young being told how important voting is and how I am privileged and honoured we are to have the right to vote. People died fighting for our right to vote is drilled in to our heads by the school system and the media. It's true! people did die for our right to vote and for our "freedom" or at least they thought they did.

After spending months tracing my family tree I found numerous family members that died in both wars, I also found out my great grandfather was wounded in world war one, an injury that crippled his arm, so I do understand how hard they fought for us and how lucky we are that we have not had to fight a war like it and how we owe them our respect, gratitude and our freedom.

Since than things have changed and again our freedom is under attack, we have the right to vote but not the right to change things. Political parties in Britain and many parts of the world are moving to the right wing, UKIP and Conservatives are far right and Labour are not far behind them. Nick Clegg as succeeded in destroying the Lib Dems as Tony Blair did Labour. An election in Britain now consists of four parties that are almost identical, why?

Governments and political parties need money to operate, money and more money. Normal people (even well off people) can not afford to pay a MP to act for us or to speak for us, only big businesses have that kind of money, which means governments/political parties need big businesses to fund them so big businesses end up controlling all the political parties with money. The political parties that do not except donations from big businesses or rich individuals end up with nowhere near enough money to even have their opinions heard. Because of this normal people become unrepresented by main stream politicians and even if we did our research and take the time to find an obscure political party in Britain that we do feel represents us and vote for them, nobody else will, 80% will vote for one the big four simply because they seen them on television.

People are busy working or raising a family, they leave politics to the politicians, the politicians make them work harder, the media distract them and "inform" them of the "news" and present the political parties to them, them people will vote one of the big four.

As if donations from businesses/rich individuals and propaganda does not make a big enough farce out of the voting system, there is another huge problem.

When running up to the last election David Cameron did not tell people he was going to attempt to privatize the NHS, political parties make promises they know they can not keep to win votes and then face no consequence when pre election promises/targets are not meet.

These are some of the reasons I have never and probably will never vote.