Some people are in the top fraction of one per cent and they vote. Other people think that, if that fraction is expanded just a "little" bit, they might get in, and they vote. Some people vote because their newspaper tells them to; some because they always have; and some because they *don't like* the other option(s).
A lot don't vote. Which means that, under our system, they implicitly support whoever gets in.
The other point, which isn't mine, but Gilbert's (Iolanthe), is that it doesn't mater which lot get in, the game goes on exactly the same, because they're all politicians, so they all vote like politicians, and hong the voters.
Also, pace Jim Hacker, it isn't the poiticians who actually make the decisions and frame the poicies, it's the Civil Servants.
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Date: 2011-06-20 06:52 am (UTC)A lot don't vote. Which means that, under our system, they implicitly support whoever gets in.
The other point, which isn't mine, but Gilbert's (Iolanthe), is that it doesn't mater which lot get in, the game goes on exactly the same, because they're all politicians, so they all vote like politicians, and hong the voters.
Also, pace Jim Hacker, it isn't the poiticians who actually make the decisions and frame the poicies, it's the Civil Servants.
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