Pathological Voting for the Win
On the 12th December 2019, Great Britain will vote for its government. Which Party will lead us and which representatives will govern and policy our lives. For many years many of us have sat this process out.
My first vote was after the 1997 General Election, in the 1998 European Elections, I voted Green and Labour, unsure, even of who, I was voting to place in this vital position that is soon to be obsolete for us Brits. I didn't vote again until 2016 for Sadiq Khan in the Mayoral Election.
My main reason for this was apathy. Apathy at the system, at myself, at the whole thing. After Tony Blair blagged his way into number 10, it became very clear, very quickly that is was business as usual and my future as part of the farm was secured. I could work in call centre, be a teacher, work for the civil service or the council. Just be a good lower middle class boy, just how we trained you.
This is a song I've never wanted to sing, so I said fuck you to everything and turned to nihilism instead. Drifting from nihilism to collectivism and back again like a pendulum on a Granddad clock that hadn't noticed the sun. I didn't see the point in voting. So I didn't do it.
At heart I am a Green and in the last election I didn't vote again out of apathy, I didn't vote because I was too ill that day, though my vote would have been Green in a safe conservative seat. which in itself was painful to participate in canvassing and organising in the vague hope that our candidates could secure their deposits back.
In this election I'm voting in a swing seat, Croydon Central, where I will vote for Labours Sarah Jones and hopefully we'll destroy Conservatives Gavin Barwells slim majority of 165 to take back this seat for labour. The only other time I've felt my vote mattered so much was in the European referendum. I voted leave with this outcome in mind.
That we would have the opportunity to rebuild this countries laws from within and have a better relationship with Europe by voting in a democratic socialist labour government lead by Jeremy Corbyn and John Mcdonnell with a mandate to leave Europe whilst remaining in the single market and remaining part of the human rights convention.
Boris Johnson will turn our country inside out for the benefit of a very few and at the detriment of the rest by leaving both and turning us into a bargain basement tax haven. Where everyone on a salary will pay for the pleasure through extortionate tax rates.
Let us not forget how the Tory reign of cuts began with two of the biggest acts of social unrest in recent history and continues with terror attacks becoming the norm and religious extremism being taught in free schools across the country. We are neither stronger or more stable, we are weak and vulnerable, just where the ruling classes want us.
We are more and more obviously at war and on an internal war footing. The Conservatives aren't hiding their fascist intentions in fact Amber Rudd was passing herself of as Hitler in her conference speech. If you want to live in a dystopia future, where the choices are Police or Thief, Soldier or Terrorist, keep voting for The Conservatives, because that is where they want us. Under control and in need of their boots. We must resist this fascism and for once we can do it from the voting booth. For once we can do it within the confines of their rules. I would love to wake up on Friday to a labour government
One that will lead the way in peaceful dialogue and equal distribution of resources and green energy. We are a rich and powerful country that could lead the way as it has in the past. The parallels with the pre-first world war era are hard to deny. Let's not go through the destruction to get to a place where we all want to help one another, lets avoid the carnage and go straight to the bit where we all congratulate each other on helping each other be happy and have all we need to thrive and be free.
In the words of the Dalai Lama ' Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive'
This our chance to act with compassion and it is an easy action, it takes conquering your own pathological apathy, neither easy, nor a guarantee of the result we need. Still a worthy sacrifice to make on one day in your life.
Ollie Bee
Let us not forget how the Tory reign of cuts began with two of the biggest acts of social unrest in recent history and continues with terror attacks becoming the norm and religious extremism being taught in free schools across the country. We are neither stronger or more stable, we are weak and vulnerable, just where the ruling classes want us.
We are more and more obviously at war and on an internal war footing. The Conservatives aren't hiding their fascist intentions in fact Amber Rudd was passing herself of as Hitler in her conference speech. If you want to live in a dystopia future, where the choices are Police or Thief, Soldier or Terrorist, keep voting for The Conservatives, because that is where they want us. Under control and in need of their boots. We must resist this fascism and for once we can do it from the voting booth. For once we can do it within the confines of their rules. I would love to wake up on Friday to a labour government
One that will lead the way in peaceful dialogue and equal distribution of resources and green energy. We are a rich and powerful country that could lead the way as it has in the past. The parallels with the pre-first world war era are hard to deny. Let's not go through the destruction to get to a place where we all want to help one another, lets avoid the carnage and go straight to the bit where we all congratulate each other on helping each other be happy and have all we need to thrive and be free.
In the words of the Dalai Lama ' Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive'
This our chance to act with compassion and it is an easy action, it takes conquering your own pathological apathy, neither easy, nor a guarantee of the result we need. Still a worthy sacrifice to make on one day in your life.
Ollie Bee
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