Jim you have railed against voting vociferously, what you have not done is explain what you believe should take the place of the nearest thing to democracy we are likely to get. Do you want a dictatorship which embodies all your beliefs and principles and denies a voice to those who do not see the world as you do? That sounds dangerously like fascism to me. Perhaps you want anarchy, but would that not be a recipe for disaster? I know what you don't want but I just can't get a handle on what you do want. The other thought that occurs to me is that you no longer live in the UK, do you think you should be pontificating on how or even whether those of us who do live here should vote? I have close ties to Ireland but for me to attempt to tell anyone in Ireland how they should regard the democratic process in their country would, I believe, be presumptuous in the extreme.