[rujeltaoser]

Whenever voter turnout is mentioned to be low the media talk about this being a negative thing.
I don't see how democracy can work if you have people voting who don't care and don't understand the implications of what voting for one or the other would actually means.

I not sure about ideas of voter equality, that a man who can barely read or write, has never worked a day in his life and is living on the dole has the same voting weight as someone who runs their own business, employs people, has a university education and is paying thousands in tax a year.

Often when speaking to people about politics it is remarkable how their only reference point for their opinions is something they saw on tv or read in a paper. "Well it must be right 'cause the paper said so"

The UK media has largely backed Cameron's 'bulldog' spirit in snubbing Johnny Foreigner. They refer to the FTT as a tax on the British economy, yet in the same news programme talk about how RBS was under regulated, the FSA failed, the government failed, how it's a scandal that tax payers are out of pocket on Northern Rock with the government loosing money in the sell off while retaining all the toxic debt.
At this point you wonder if the journalists themselves actually have a clue what the FTT is actually all about