Fine for people who want to become a politician

IT was suggested in a letter in a recent Hinckley Times that voters should be fined for failing to vote.

I have voted in every poll since I was eligible but couldn’t see the point in the recent election so I saved myself the effort and read a good book instead. I wanted choice but seemed to be offered many shades of the same idea by a procession of grey, uninspiring candidates masquerading as leaders in waiting. Smiling painted on smiles, they would have offered me anything to secure my support only to carry on regardless should they get in.

When in power, the favourite tactic is to belittle anything the other side suggests without having anything in any way useful to offer in its place. Thus, there is a perfect recipe for stalemate and inaction which is only ended when the party with the largest number in power wins on a show of hands. Democracy it certainly isn’t.

Rather than fine me for failing to vote it might be more useful to fine anyone daft enough to consider becoming a politician in the first place. Rather put in place people who are actually qualified to do the job in question and make them answerable to a body with real power to sanction them. An OFPOL if you like.

In the meantime, don’t fine me for not voting as the very act of voting only serves to encourage them to think that they are right. Maybe if no one voted it might prompt them to consider what they are doing but I doubt it: they are so convinced of their being right that to consider the aspirations of the voters would be unthinkable.

Sorry to say it but voting for them only serves to encourage them. Wayne Morris