I did not vote today. I have just given up watching the election night shows in favour of finding my bed to crash into. In the news, whatever shape and form it reaches me in, have been a few articles about my age group (I just squeeze into the 18 to 24 year olds). We are supposedly more interested in governmental issues than our political participation makes out but the parties leave us feeling irrelevant, disassociated, unimportant. Maybe I fit in there. Throw in the nature of this round of campaigning, somewhat presidential (a focus on lead characters) and negative (’don’t vote for them because they are ugly’ tactics rather than ‘vote for us - we have great policies’). Then remember that ‘they’ know that I’m not likely to vote; that the turnout is highest among those over 55 and so demand, by sheer power of numbers, all the attention. You can see how it adds up: who cares whether I vote? I don’t.
Then again, maybe if I lived in a marginal, where it gets a bit more exciting, I could have been enticed into a booth.
Keep up-to-date overnight and checkout the final results on the BBC News site, they have this great map of constituencies.
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