52 Weeks to Make the World a Better Place: Week 18 - Make your vote count

Keeping things topical, it's worth thinking about this as it's generally a five-year sentence. After yet another term of broken promises, Bush-worship and increasingly paranoid laws, you'd be forgiven for abstaining from the whole charade. We KNOW the Tories are even worse than Neo-Labour, yet there's little real ground between them. Given this fact, we can pretty much imagine how much overlap there is for a so-called 'middle' party: would the LibDems REALLY make a difference? Probably not. Party politics is dead, yet it's all we've got at the moment. A non-vote is thorn-in-the-side for the whole system, but is it the best way to use it?

The whole thing is a delicate balancing act, so whichever way you lean, consider the consequences of your choice rather than blindly following old paths or simply giving up. It may put the 'mock' in 'democracy', but I'd sure rather live with the system we have than with a military dictatorship or worse: it's well worth thinking globally to change your jaded local perspective.