I don't have voter apathy, I just have voter rage

I don't have voter apathy, I just have voter rage - Comment - Times Online

Every single election since I have been entitled to vote, I have thought hard about whether to do so. I think about the nature of democracy and, even more painfully, about the suffragettes of my great-grandmothers’ generation, who fought so hard to win me the right to vote. And then I think about the value of that hard-won vote, and the way in which, if I use it, it endorses the party for whom I cast it. And it seems to me that refusing to cast it for anyone is the most powerful statement I can possibly make. It isn’t voter apathy that prevents me from voting. it is voter rage.

And no PR is not the answer, all that leads to is a group of untouchable career politicians that are impossible to get rid of. Working yur way up the Party hieracrcy becomes a much more effective way of remaining in your very lucrative job than actually doing what you are paid for and serving the interests of you constituents. She also says "I see the effectiveness of direct action, when a celebrity such as Jamie Oliver or Bob Geldof embraces a cause with passion." This is unfortuantly true. Since true local democracy has basically been stamped out, initially started by Thatcher to get her economic reforms across, and then continued by Blair because of his iinstinctive hatred of Democracy. celebraty power is everything, without it your cannot get onto the national media, and without the national media you are simply not on the radar screens of the top level politicians who are the only people with any power to do anything having stripped it from everybody else.