Not seen hide nor hair of any candidates here. No posters, no leaflets.

Not sure what I'm going to do

People often use local elections to register a protest vote. They don't often waste their vote at general elections.

As a nation our apathy toward voting, coupled with our complaining about the incumbent party, never ceases to amaze me.

I will be voting this evening in the local elections, because the incumbent is a thoroughly hateful twat.

I have never heard the expression "safe seat" before coming to the UK. If you're not happy, vote, else stop the whining.

Does France have the same system where by if a majority of people vote for party A, then party B and C can take all the seats leaving everyone who voted for A completely unrepresented?

Not seen hide nor hair of any candidates here. No posters, no leaflets. If we hadn't received our polling cards, we'd never have known there was an election happening. There weren't even any of the usual lurkers at the door of the polling station. I've had to actively seek information in order to find out if anyone was standing for the party that's getting my vote from now on, since those yellow bastids sold themselves - and the rest of us - up the Swannee.

It won't matter, because the True Blue Meanie will still get in.

For the record, and I don't care who knows it, I used to vote LibDem. Now I have voted Green Party. As far as I can work out, they're the only party with sensible notions like nationalising stuff like electricity, gas, water and railways again.

The issue is not with the method, it's with the fact that people keep voting for parties even though they don't do a good job. If you're not happy with the state of affairs, vote elsewhere!

Vote elsewhere? You mean move to a safe Green seat?

I wish I could change the way people around here vote. I've been very vocal about supporting LibDem in the past and they did have some support, but most people here are middle class and selfish. They vote Tory because they generally stand for making middle class people better off, and screw anyone else. It's well established that most people might say anything they thing makes them look good, but then vote selfishly. If it wasn't anonymous, things might be very different.

The French system sounds much fairer. At least my vote would actually count.

Sadly I think that is democracy no? respect the voice of the majority?