Off Topic General Election

In that case why is Liz Truss entitled to a full PMs salary for the next x number of years?

 

Because she was PM for a month.

 

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Here ya go.
Will Liz Truss get a pension? The perks former prime ministers get - BBC News

 

Should uk have compulsory voting like australia?

 

I think it would be better to try and make people less disenchanted by the electoral system. The electoral system is a mess for one thing, but also I think the dialogue and coverage around UK politics isn't helpful. Too many people don't understand or have awareness of current issues and I don't think it's entirely their own fault. It'd be a difficult and complex thing to improve though.

 

That is class

 

No, I don't think so.

Building on what PLT said, it'd just lead to even greater manipulation.

It suits certain political bases that certain people don't vote.

 

Think both major parties claim they are going to get the likes of Amazon to pay their full share of tax. So suppose Labour go after Amazon and Amazon come back and say, "Okay, we'll pay up, but we are a major employer and we aren't willing for our business to take the hit, so we will close one of our distribution centres and the one we will close will be in a Labour heartland where there already is a high rate of unemployment"
So you increase your tax income, but you also increase your social security payments AND it looks bad for Labour. Soon as they come to power, people in Labour voting areas lose their jobs.

 

No. If you don't want to vote, you have no need to....Compulsory = more spoilt ballot papers...adding more cost to an already expensive exercise.
My cous Tom in the US is not registered to vote there, so never has done..Reason = those on the electoral register can be summoned for court duty, those not on the register don't get asked.

 

I’d rather have some sort of PR system with a minimum percentage of votes needed. First past the post seems antiquated.

 

It is, but FPTP suits both main parties and neither will change to PR

 

Party politics needs abolishing completely and also mo candidates should all be local people not some bellend with a degree in big Billy bullshit from Surrey who’s been planted there.

 

Only if they have proportional representation , most people's votes don't count under the current system
so why should they vote ?

 

Yepp. .Vaguely remember from about March 1966. I was only a bin-lid...Some bloke knocking on the door of our house in North Hull...Talk about a southern plum-duff bellend, miles from his natural surrounding. Some toffee nosed bloke jettisoned in from down London way...A Tory MP wanting my mams vote...Talked like he had a mouth full of marbles..Name of Toby Jessel. About as far removed from North Hull as an eskimo living in the Aussie outback....Needless to say he lost.

 

Yes along with proportional representation

 

Taxation is complex and I'm sure the best system would be beyond what I can understand. But I can't accept living in one of the richest countries in the world with seemingly endless money sloshing around at the top, but being continuously told that there's no money for public infrastructure, no money for doctors or teachers, everyone must make do with less, lower living standards, longer waiting lists, earlier deaths and all the rest of it, and also being told what a brilliant country it is that we should be so proud of. I think the inconsistency there is shameful.