"what's the point?"

Spoil your vote. Your vote still gets counted and you don't have to settle for the status quo. Like I said before, I write poems on my spoilt votes but you could paste pictures, write slogans and anything else.

By not voting, you're part of the problem and you don't have a voice. I'm not giving up my vote because the choice is between shysters, lickspittles and tosspots; they can all GTF. I'll damn well stand by the people who fought and died for universal suffrage, who suffered and defended our right to cast a ballot.

It always amazes me when the TV shows folks who can vote, possibly for the first time, are always happy to being doing so. They might have lived under a regime where their voices were silenced by force and oppression; they often queue for hours in all sorts of weather and they recognise the importance of being able to vote.

That people don't vote simply means the've either forgotten or don't care about how important voting is. We're under the kosh of the military-industrial complex and the establishment, but we're also still in with a shout.

Vote.