tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post1584734297235287132..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once moreHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-78654342676432755232012-12-03T16:23:00.953+00:002012-12-03T16:23:00.953+00:00The question is how different and how far they can...The question is how different and how far they can be changed not back but forward to a different situation. If we knew more precisely why people prefer not voting to voting for UKIP we might be able to move. Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-37752737484506780652012-12-03T15:43:13.314+00:002012-12-03T15:43:13.314+00:00The nub is surely that when voters give up on a fa...The nub is surely that when voters give up on a favoured party now, they appear to give up on voting...and the young are barely engaged at all. Organised politics with its central control and saying yes when you mean no (Chris Grayling "having to do what I am told by the EU" in a vote "so I have to vote for something I don't believe in") just seems out of time and deeply unattractive. Also too many other distractions, it all appears irrelevant (even when it may not be), too many different elections and a feeling that voting makes no difference. UKIP has obviously had some lift in this, it would be churlish not to give the party some credit, but it is not enough to change things. Otherwise it would be achieving the SNP Hamilton style victories of the late 60s. But these, as you have said, are different times... Damian Hockneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805337734492250142noreply@blogger.com