True, but I think they'd be fools not to. Sure, if and when I want to read what the main parties have to say for themselves, I'll go and look at their websites; but not everybody has that option, and most people aren't proactive (ugh!) enough to ring up and ask about stuff or go and find out. As a nation, we're lazy; only just over half of us bothered to vote last election! If a party doesn't take that general level of apathy into consideration it's a bit misguided IMHO.
I do also read the stuff that comes through the door, in a something-to-read-idly-over-dinner kind of way, and it was noticeable that this time we didn't get anything from the Green Party at all. Or, indeed, from any of the three independents standing in Cambridge, which is frankly just stupid -- at least the major parties can rely on some kind of vague awareness of their policies (especially the Greens, and it's not as if you need to ask what they stand for!) but when I see three random names on the ballot paper and it's the first time I've heard them, I'm certainly not going to vote for any of them.
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Date: 2005-05-05 03:16 pm (UTC)True, but I think they'd be fools not to. Sure, if and when I want to read what the main parties have to say for themselves, I'll go and look at their websites; but not everybody has that option, and most people aren't proactive (ugh!) enough to ring up and ask about stuff or go and find out. As a nation, we're lazy; only just over half of us bothered to vote last election! If a party doesn't take that general level of apathy into consideration it's a bit misguided IMHO.
I do also read the stuff that comes through the door, in a something-to-read-idly-over-dinner kind of way, and it was noticeable that this time we didn't get anything from the Green Party at all. Or, indeed, from any of the three independents standing in Cambridge, which is frankly just stupid -- at least the major parties can rely on some kind of vague awareness of their policies (especially the Greens, and it's not as if you need to ask what they stand for!) but when I see three random names on the ballot paper and it's the first time I've heard them, I'm certainly not going to vote for any of them.