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Giving you the right to vote ‘None of the Above’

As a political party, our aim is simple – make politicians listen more to their constituents and a little less to their party hierarchy.

Britain is a country where more than 40% do not vote, where PR seems to matter more than policy and where pensioners get arrested under anti-terrorism laws for having their say at a national democratic forum. The governing of the country flips between two political parties with a third on hand to mop up any dissenting protest votes, making them useless.

The aim of the Protest Vote Party is not to gain power for ourselves but to act as a political catalyst, to change politics from within, to get politicians delivering the wishes of the people they represent rather than blindly following the orders of their party leaders.

A change is needed in the way the British two-party system works, a method to get Members of Parliament to actually represent their constituents rather than constantly following the directives of their party leadership. At the Protest Vote Party, we believe we have found one solution.

We stand at elections to let the public vote ‘None of the Above’.

We give the voters complete assurance that if elected we will resign, giving them the opportunity to remove inept, untruthful and intentionally deaf politicians from office. This creates a by-election where the parties have to put forward new, more credible candidates. Voters will know that they can still return their favoured choice of party but also oust any ineffective MP or Councillor of that party who does not work on their behalf.

More than that, once the public have demonstrated their ability to remove individuals who do not fully represent them, the next session of elected politicians will be very aware they too could suffer the same fate if they don’t work and vote actively on behalf of their constituents.

Forty percent of the British public decided not to vote at the last General Election, and that doesn’t include those who opted out of the electoral registers. At local elections that figure rises to around 60%. For a government to claim it has the consent of the people there must be a significant turnout.

“It’s not that people can’t be bothered to vote.

There’s just no one suitable to vote for.”

The current levels of voter apathy have little to do with laziness, convenience or an unwanted trek to the polling station. It is due to the failure of the political parties to produce credible, trusted, respectable candidates and policies. Creating a climate of fear about what the other party might or might not do in office is the main political tactic at election time. People are compelled to vote for the party that does them the least harm when they should be voting for people who will actually represent them and their views. Large numbers of the population ignore the ballot box because there is no one suitable to vote for. The Protest Vote Party gives them the opportunity to register that fact.

We are a strictly apolitical political party. We do not take a stance on individual political issues; we leave that to the other political parties. At an election our candidates’ personal views are irrelevant. They stand purely to give the public the opportunity to vote ‘None of the Above’.

We live in a democracy. Our politicians are elected under the “Representation of the People Act”. The Protest Vote Party exists to remind them of that.

Contact Details:-

www.ProtestVoteParty.org

Mark Stack (Party Leader)

The Protest Vote Party

Room 221, 91 Western Road

Brighton

East Sussex

BN1 2NW

Creation date : 03/12/2006 @ 18:40
Last update : 08/02/2007 @ 10:43
Category : Great-Britain

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