This reminds me of that episode of south park where stan has to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich as the school mascot...
Though in all honesty I'd be tempted to break my idealistic view of voting (ie you actually vote for who you think best serves the country and its people) and instead simply use your vote 'by default' meaning you vote for the next strongest party than the one you
don't want to win; so I hate labor and while I might not agree or support the tories, they are much more likely to succeed than the lib dems or greens etc so I vote tory :hmm:
urgh, it's a distressing outcome either way is mob rule ya know.
An unrealistic idea would be to have a 'none of the above' box where if a certain percentage of the voters check that box then the election is void, kind of like a vote of no confidence for all of the parties out there. Mayhap it would force mp's to get off their backsides and start earning that 50k pa and take notice of what people want instead of steamrollering ludicrous schemes like id cards etc.
Ah well all of this is making me light headed... perhaps the gas boiler is leaking again
/wanders off to turn up the central heating whilst I can still afford it.