I rather reject the framing of that -- they're likely to stay at home because of the failure of the political system in this country: "why vote when it's meaningless." they might say (given the total false-choice between Labour and the "Conservatives"). People are disillusioned because they're *_effectively_* disenfranchised by having no real choice nor say (by FPTP and there being not much separating the two main parties).

I don’t see any point in turning up to vote for a government that I don’t want. It’s like choosing between a punch and a slap, I don’t want either, there’s no point turning up to vote for a slap because it’s marginally better than a punch. Better to register your disgust at the choice by not voting. Not voting also helps avoid the inevitable politician claiming of a ‘mandate’ for some corrupt policy later on.

​@@NZAnimeMangaah well you see thats a false premise but if you really believe that then you still can't complain

@@sam.p12345 yeah but you're gonna get a punch or slap regardless so best to choose

@@sam.p12345 by not voting you change nothing, you do not exist far as they are aware so why on earth will they cater their policies to you? You haven't voiced anything. You're much better of "spoiling" your ballot. Spoiled ballots still get counted, and it's still a vote and voice saying how unhappy they are, NOW politicians will pay attention to these because these are undecided voters who want to vote, they will most likely hear your voice which means more chance of change. Draw a giant gentlemen sausage if you need to, draw a box and tick it with your own name next to it. But just don't stay at home and do nothing....

I know right. Why do they make us watch the same thing twice. Weird decisions

@@Randomstuffs261 Its to get people to watch past the first 30 seconds. -cos thats the biggest drop out point

Dont listen then

People who vote small parties are delusional not disillusioned, the disillusioned are the no votes/spoiled ballots.

It makes a change from being continually called "racists" or "far right wing"

Because we are

@@BuddysSeeds Speak for yourself.

Because they're scoundrels

Because our allegiance is to our country not Brussels

I am taking my Biro as a pencil might be rubbed out, lol.

boomers

@@piccalillipit9211 Maybe they worked hard all of their lives, and saved for their retirement....something the youth of today could do with copying.

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. ENJOY YOUR FANTASY WORLD DUDE They didnt work hard all their life - they had a VERY EASY cushy life - I know cos Im 54 and I had an easy cushy life just like they did so dont BS me. My BASIC starting salary at 18 years old was £455 a month take home and the mortgage on the 3 bedroomed 4 story stone built terrace house I bought was £185 a month. You can foll yourself mate but you cant fool me - kids today have it IMPOSSIBLY HARD compared to what I had it and BOOMERS had it way easier than I did.

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne They didnt work hard all their life - they had a VERY EASY cushy life - I know cos Im 54 and I had an easy cushy life just like they did so dont B*****S me. My BASIC starting salary at 18 years old was £455 a month take home and the mortgage on the 3 bedroomed 4 story stone built terrace house I bought was £185 a month. You can fool yourself mate but you cant fool me - kids today have it IMPOSSIBLY HARD compared to what I had it and B-O-O-M-E-R-S had it way easier than I did.

@@piccalillipit9211 Don't judge me by your incorrect opinion. Us baby boomers as you like to refer to us did jobs that the youth these days wouldn't even be allowed to do. And if they were the vast majority wouldn't.

I agree, was in a cafe the other day filled with pensioners and heard no one mention the election apart from one person saying they are all the same. I expect the lowest turnout for many years,

I'm starting to think Sunak's original claim of a hung parliament might not have been as crazy as everyone made out to be

The sight of Emily Thornberry on GB news today is a turn off.

@@Phatkez I think the same.

I would think that "The Unions" will be licking their lips at the thought of Angela Rayner, strike, strike, strike.

@@dragonfly6908 It will be similar to the days of Harold Wilson.

Voting reform

@@DaveCorbey True. Also "The Unions" caused the downfall of the Labour Government during the late 1970's when James Callaghan was the Prime Minister. The public services went on strike including Grave diggers, the Bin men etc and was known as "The Winter of discontent". James Callaghan said that "If I was a young man I would emigrate", lol.

Ppl should show their feelings about the two main parties and vote reform imo

I'm choosing active abstention. In my constituency the result is a foregone conclusion. At least a low turnout delegitimises the result slightly.

You may have lost your faith in the two main parties, but voting Reform shows that you've lost your marbles! Reform are the Conservatives without restraint and charisma. It's a low bar, but Reform have managed to get under it.

Have you considered emigration? Australia is far more prosperous and politically mature then the rickety Westminster system. Bon chance.😊.Quite seriously.

I couldn't agree more. And to add insult to injury, they're shipping in English candidates into Scottish constituencies. Never mind tiny representation we already have in Westminster. Never mind the them denying the claim that Labour's an English centric party and then doing this. Never mind Starmer basically making the point that he doesn't think local Scottish candidates are qualified to stand for his party. You'd have to be nuts for vote for Labour, in Scotland. However, maybe there are Scots who need to see first hand, that Labour will fail Scotland every bit as much as the Tories, before they finally get on board with the independence movement. They are hoping for better from Labour. But they will be disappointed. And any seats won by Labour this election, will be washed away in the following one.

​@@OneTrueScotsmanwhen British citizens stand in British seats😡

​@@OneTrueScotsmanI don't see how 'shipping in' English candidates to Scottish constituencies is such a problem, when you speak of 'tiny representation' in Westminster but all Scottish MPs as well as NI & Welsh MPs vote on every agenda at Westminster, even legislature which will only affect England, which does not work vice-versa (English MPs do not vote in the Scottish Parliament).This actually makes England the only constituent nation of the UK without a devolved parliament. Scotland is also a very small proportion of the UK population, in its entirety making up barely half the population of London. Parliament is sovereign and Scotland gets a piece of that along with its own devolved parliament, which is *almost* never interfered with by Westminster. Scotland is of great value to the UK. I'm not claiming that Scotland has too much power at all, but I also don't think it's particularly underrepresented.

I'd rather have some kind of basic education in to how to engage with politics and learn some general stuff than having compulsory voting

Proportional Representation does not lead to proportional political influence. It exaggerates the influence of small “kingmaker” parties. Imagine a PR Parliament with 100 seats. The result is Red Party 47%, Blue Party 47%, Yellow Party 6%. In such a Parliament, the 6% Yellow Party will have far more political influence than whichever 47% Party they choose to reject for a coalition deal.

@@georgesdelatour Meh, its better than what we've got by a long shot, frankly the fact that you can get 26k votes in a seat, and if someone else wins with 27k votes in that seat, those 26k you accumulated are just thrown away because you just happened to get 1000 less, FPTP is much poorer representation and PR isn't perfect but its way better

For which elections do you suggest compulsion? General Elections (I presume that one's a yes) Local Authority Elections? Westminster By Elections? LA by-elections? MP recall petitions? Police Commissioner Elections? Parish election, by-elections &c? Parish referendums? Whilst not completely opposed, there would have to be a 'none of the above' option, with meaningful consequences should a predetermined percentage be returned so marked. Then, were that number reached, should parties be allowed to stand the same candidates again? Could a candidate who'd been rejected then go on to any other constituency? We've had years when 2GEs have happened. There's no 'constitutional' reason more couldn't take place. Just a few thoughts .....

I wonder how motivated people would be to get out and vote against a party which included compulsory voting in its manifesto. It seems quite fascist to legislate to force your political views on other people.

Oh yes they can be worse! Take a closer critical look at them and see.

@@nigelgarrett7970 I have and its a better option than Labour or Tory

@@sysasst670 Then I suggest that you look closely at its candidates. Despite their objectives of fielding a full slate they are over 150 short. Look at their candidate turnover, 110 since January 2024. What does that say? Then have a look at the following: Andrea Whitehead (Leeds West / Pudsey) Hugo Miller (Horsham)

Reform is great if you hope for a government that can’t find its way out of a paper bag. Otherwise, any other party is better.

I'll be voting Reform, I feel it'll be a wasted vote choosing either of the big 2.

Well, technically, you are right: no MP sat in Parliament has an outright majority...because we don't have any sitting MPs as of last Thursday. The overall sentiment of your comment, however, is incorrect. If you look at the 2019 results: many MPs were returned with outright majorities. The safest seats had upwards of 70% support.

@@TheTrueTeaLord So lets test that theory - The number 1 Tory safe seat in 2019 was South Holland and The Deepings, held. by John Hayes (Tory), where he got 79.5 %. However voter turn out was 64.9% meaning 35.3 percent of adults able to vote in that seat never turned up, we then have Labour and the other parties taking a total of the other 24.1 percent of that vote. Adding this to the no shows means that 59.4 percent of the votes in that seat were not for Hayes, therefore he has a minority seat with only 40.6 percent of the available votes. This is my point and also reflected across all parties and MPs. None of them have a majority.

Obviously not...

Higher taxes or cut spending on other services to fund NHS or introduce a charge to the all pheasants to use NHS, only the UK & New Zealand adopt the NHS system in the world. No ease solution, like for most other services in the UK.

A 'simple' long term plan is to get us all healthier and not needing as much treatment by intervening earlier upstream. NatCen Social Research also does research on this as well

@@stephenpimm5940 In principle and in the realistic world, your suggestion is absolutely 100%, unfortunately in the delusional world that we all live in now most people know this, but will continue to go. John extremely unhealthy food as many people feel highly entitled interesting no one in this country anymore, gives anything back to the country but wants to take take take so in my view of the stage I’m in life there will be no fix unless it’s forced upon us.

No problem, Starmers got "fully costed" plans to inject much more of our money into it...expect taxes to rise significantly. Also Starmer isn't mentioning removing the freeze on the Tax free amount! A huge ever increasing stealth tax in itself.

nation ruining libertarians or neoliberals.

I think ppl might be surprised how many they get

Vote quimby

Ppl voted for that in 1930s Germany. Research.

You are truly delusional. The Tories are not hard right at all, and they didn't get rid of the anti Brexiteers, the majority of them didn't want us to leave and tried very hard to prevent the will of the people from happening. When your all growed up with a proper job and family, your views might change. I'm voting reform anyway, because all the 3 major parties are terrible. I'm also old enough to remember past Labour governments, and it wasn't good.

The Tories are hard right! That's the funniest thing I've read today. The current party is probably to the left of Tony Blair.

Are you having a laugh? The tories brought in the GRA , they allowed mass legal and illegal immigration, they have ignored critical race theory being taught in schools, and they have only now begun to stop Trans and LGBT stuff being taught to children under 10. The BBC personnel can vent their views anytime they like despite the fact that they are meant to be impartial. They have allowed mass development in rural areas, they have allowed the Uk to become an international welfare state and they have allowed the institutions to ransack out museums to pay homage to other cultures without any proper understanding or education to our history ....yeah really hard right. I cannot understand how anyone can think of them being hard right unless you are a simpleton who has followed the herd and are so called a woke lefty. Honestly I despair.

The Tories hard right? You must be joking. The Tories are conmen who serve nobody, left or right, but themselves

If you think this currently conservative party is "pretty hard right" you're honestly too far gone to communicate with. Pick any traditional "right wing" view, and they'll have been the most liberal Government we've had on that issue arguably ever.

Hmmm...a highly experienced Prof or some knuckle-dragging Brexshitter...

He was shocking though thank god he lost

Forage can certainly mobilise specific segments of the electorate. But he is actively loathed by millions of voters. Seeing his mug plastered all over the telly again and again during the next few weeks will also mobilise them to show up at the polling station TO VOTE AGAINST HIM.

Farage appeals to a relatively small base . I think the extra votes Reform can gain with Farage is quite limited and overstated .

@@johnburrows3385 Agreed. Forage is the Marmite candidate. You either love him or you loathe him. And there are many millions of voters that loathe him. Seeing him again and again all over the telly night after night will incentivise them to vote against him.

Farage 60% pmsl

@@johnburrows3385 I'm not sure I would call 17,000,000 a "relatively small base"

But I don’t see the government’s job as being to invest money, the private sector will be able to invest more effectively and efficiently. The government’s job is to spend on public services. The ‘invest’ buzzword is a misnomer that politicians misuse, usually accompanied by ‘digital technology’ whatever that means, when they want to waste a load of money on some corrupt vanity project, like HS2.

@sam.p12345 I disagree with you . Especially with large Infrastructure projects ,the profit motive creams off money . Just look at the disastrous water privatisation or the railways .

Postal vote, easy to do and gives you the righht to complain about who gets voted in.

Like what happened in London with Sadiq Khan.

@@mishymoo34 Postal vote? Are You having a Rory MacGra

@@mishymoo34 Postal Vote? Are You having a laugh? If You're voting for a right to moan, then congratulations! You'll be hitting the jackpot and will effectively be helping to perpetuate the very things You end up moaning about. Let Me be the first to congratulate You on Your joined up thinking.

What is woke ?

You’re socially left wing so you are woke

Woke? Do you even know what it means?

I think That 'Woke' is a left social issue. As anti-woke is a right wing social issue. So saying you are left social is quite contradicting.

I don't know mate, maybe take your crayons down to the polling station and just write "not woke >:(" on the ballot paper

Same. No clubs have earned my membership.

What on Earth is environmental responsibility?

@@stephfoxwell4620 It means knowing what environmental responsibility means.

@@tmcb2000 Have you bought into the nonsense about Mother Nature? History shows us that more people and richer people are best for the environment. Technology and progress. China has 2,000 coal fired power stations. India has 300 million wood burning stoves. Once they get rich they will have fewer and eventually none.

​@@stephfoxwell4620 I get that you don't understand environmental responsibility

Because voting Brexit was patriotic.

@@entropy5431 if it was bad for the country ?

@@markfoth1226 If.

​@@entropy5431 It was provably bad for the country, peddled exclusively by liars, and has resulted in 0 benefits.

@@barryhomeowner9293 Hey Baza you still here lol .Why not name three advantages we would have being still part of the failing EU junta

What are those British values? Disdain for the human rights laws we created? Hatred of anyone who's different from you? If that's British values, I don't want to live in Britain

@@barryhomeowner9293 Bye bye

@@barryhomeowner9293 You need help understanding something. 🙏🙏🙏

@@barryhomeowner9293 They leave and go to one of 57 Muslim countries full of love. 🙏🙏🙏

A living legend in election predictions. Called a hung parliament in 2010 to complete bemusement and disbelief by all the news outlets, and was spot on.

Yes we do, as we have open minds.

Yes.

So you're a fan of bunker Harry, are you .That says it all

Open minds? Do you even know who owns GB news? The media isnt even owned by british people anymore , its owned and manipulated by shady foteign billionaires living in the far east .

​@@denisharding5606yes, but unfortunately we don't have open media. Don't see LibDems, Greens, or any other minority parties getting any media attention, yet that obnoxious toad Farage is everywhere.

Very much doubt it if Labour get a big majority

On what basis do you think that? This prediction makes no sense. It made sense to predict that durinig Brexit but not now.

@@davecross4493 Just a gut feeling - no stats, I'm afraid!

My gut feeling tells me your brain is hollow

This.

The alternative......Vote REFORM UK !!!

For a 20 year old certainly

@@531c Hans Moleman

Probably because he is old

@@barryhomeowner9293 Oh well so another section of our community you dislike Baza aye ???