Green Party – Wasted Vote?
With our current voting system, some may be worrying if there is any point in voting Green. Here’s why I think it makes sense:
- The three main parties are all pretty much saying the same thing these days on health, education and things like troops in Afghanistan. Even on Trident – the Lib Dems although saying they would cancel the new Trident system have not made any commitment to scrap the existing system.
- The Green’s are the only party that have a fully costed manifesto – the next best of the main parties are the Lib Dems but they have only spelt out 29% of how they would half the public deficit. The Green Party have committed to fully protect jobs and services and raise the money through higher taxation of those most able to pay it – the sort of thing Labour use to be saying years ago and now abandoned.
Politics these days seems to be more about presentation and personalities than about policy and manifesto commitments. I believe the only wasted vote is a vote for a party you don’t believe in.