Don't Lose Your Right to Vote.

There it was, almost snuggled, amongst the usual array of rising bills, advertising paraphernalia and plastic bags requiring discarded clothes for the recently made homeless; another government endorsed misinformation letter. "Don't Lose Your Right to Vote," was emblazoned across the front of the envelope. I would imagine that, far and wide, the length and breadth of this 'fine' country, similar (essentially junk) mail is currently landing upon countless doormats.

Thanks to stuartpilbrow

As I recall, graphic accompaniment used to take the form of a concerned young man, whose mouth had been replaced by a closed zip. Powerful stuff! And right he was, to look so concerned. I couldn't swear to it but, I have been led to believe, that the presence of the young man's image was recently challenged in the high courts, when it was, I am reliably informed, successfully argued that the voters' mouths had effectively been zipped for rather longer than was deemed healthy for a genuinely aspiring democracy.

Having wasted far too much time communicating with 'my own' MP, it pains me to contend that the cause has most definitely been so thoroughly lost as to be decades beyond farce. Maybe you believe yourself to be slightly more fortunate than myself, in not having a stuffed jacket as your MP- truly, a dead office plant with a blue rosette could have been elected here- but I would urge you to notice that its still pretty much the same precipitated excrement raining down in your neck of the woods.

Ask yourself this: "If everybody I know feels the same way about parliamentary expenses and bankers' bonuses, why is it that a general election appears not to have changed a thing?" I will tentatively venture that, should your vote ever come to represent such overdue possible change, then it will be so swiftly removed as to leave burns upon fingertips. Thus, it really doesn't matter whether you vote, just can't be bothered or already (and correctly) don't see the point, because your vote has long since been completely nullified. It's your (so called) Council Tax that they're after, you fools.

Much thanks to shakestercody

Here's a thought: maybe, if all of the powerless masses completely boycott the next general election, thus removing the last vestiges of pretended accountability, something far more useful will grow to fill the vacuum. If the vacuum is already there, why not acknowledge it as such and see what happens? Just a thought.

The 'free' press will undoubtedly rush to concoct a cover story; what else would we expect from those millionaire's play things. The police and the army will, quite naturally, be entrusted with the 'keeping of the peace', until an alternative is safely in place. Maybe there will be an emergency coalition, just until order is restored you understand; a 'benevolent dictatorship', of some sort or other, I would imagine. And who better to administer this stop-gap government than those with the experience to keep it running smoothly?

Christ! Now I'm really beginning to scare myself! Pass the arsenic, someone...