Vote For Me!

The last time I voted was earlier this year when I voted for British Chips rather than Belgian ones. I still think the ballot was rigged! Seriously, the only time I have voted in my life was in 1982, and that was only because I had just become eligible to vote. The British are famous for their apathy in regards to voting, I rather like to think we are just exercising our right NOT to vote, if we don't want to. Didn't the British fight in a war for that sort of thing?

In Belgium, people are forced to vote. Yesterday, I settled down to a nice mug of tea as the rest of the household ventured out into the pouring rain before the vote police came-a-knocking.

"Don't forget your ID cards" I called out to them, adding something witty (in my opinion) about living in a Fascist state.

Should people be forced to vote? The turn out across the continent was only 43% for the EU elections. I like to think that people who voted actually knew what they were voting for. I'm not much of a political animal, as you might of guessed. My favourite statement about voting is that if voting actually changed anything they would ban it. I'm interested in the furor about MP's expenses currently hogging the news in Britain but that's only because I like to see these people squirming a bit. Whilst I have the freedom to choose whether I want to vote or not, I will choose not to. I'm aware of the EU elections, but not aware of any policies from any political party in Britain, apart from the UK Independent Party (UKIP), who won a lot of seats in Britain, their policy? Pull Britain out of the EU! So we now have a group of people speaking on our behalf in Brussels, who are (effectively) against themselves being in Brussels...they won more seats than Labour.