Hoping for AV system
What does the term democracy mean to the man-in-the-street? Surely it means having a say in the way one is governed.
Now aged 86, I have voted in every General and Local election for 65 years, but have never had my say. Living in safe-seat constituencies, and favouring candidates other than the dominating party, my vote has always been confiscated by the current system. Thus I find myself in company with convicts, lunatics, and peers.
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Hide AdFor all the say I have ever had, I might as well have died on the Atlantic and Arctic Convoys, or at the Invasion beaches, or later in the Pacific. It would seem that my six medals have no significance.
I am still hoping that perhaps just once before I die I may have the pleasure of casting a vote which counts – that just for once I may have my say.
RALPH HILL
Willow Drive
Bexhill-on-Sea