But that's Marxist.

I think Labour on the last one but the Tories had anti privacy stuff too and none of the minor parties had any hope of getting in in my area.

Care to name them?

With what? Plastic butter knives?

Truth is these things are being pushed by heads of department behind the politicians, the ones who have lifetime jobs and dont get voted in. These people and lobbying business owners are pushing very hard on all politicians and lawmakers to force this through, which is why there are more and more politicians in favour of it who dont even understand it.

No thanks - I’ll keep my human rights, thank you.

If they were otherwise reasonable that might be a solution but their obsession with immigration is getting worse. In get the feeling they are turning into into Restore. Maybe next time they will accept a donation from Musk.

I mean, i go through the motions of voting. but i'm voting against an overwhelming amount of feelings-voters that are easily manipulated. i don't think it makes much difference anymore.

If i wasn't busy, local politics is where one could make a difference. Nation politics seems completely captured by now.

Exactly! It's not like we have decades of evidence that the demographic which has consistent high turnout is consistently and significantly politically pandered to in many, many regards. No sir

I favour random selection. You end up with a perfectly representative parliament.

Ideally, sortition or direct democracy.

I think this ignores the fact that there are very converted efforts to use well-researched methods to manipulate and mislead people at the ballotbox in favor of the vested interests.

The same interests also conspire to keep people preoccupied with basic needs and distractions that leave them with little time to properly research issues.

This is called rational irrationality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_irrationality

The general populace potentially not willing to make informed choices is the reason why we kept monarchy for so long.