Dear Facebook

[lizzie_and_ari]

Stop having groups called things such as 'I bet I can find a million people who DON'T want David Cameron as our PM.'

If you don't want David Cameron as your PM, in a few months you'll get a piece of paper through the post. You go down to a nominated building likely to be within a few minutes walk of your house, you take an old fashioned pencil and put a cross in a box next to, say, the Liberal Democrats, or the Green Party. Even the BNP, whatever your personal conscience tells you. Just not David Cameron, if you are one of the 'million' people who don't want him as PM

Now, this process is slightly more complicated than clicking on a FB button. And there will even need to be more than a million people who don't vote for him. The inspired and key difference here, however, is that is makes a difference.  If, say, as many as 15 million people wanted David Cameron to be PM, but everyone else who was sent one of those magic wee bit of paper didn't* then he wouldn't be! 

Unfortunately, if one million people with the Magic Paper say they want David Cameron, and the remaining 44 million make their righteous anger known through Facebook, David Cameron will still be Prime Minister.

The Magic Paper system really is quite wonderful.  Try it sometime!

Lxxx

*Based on an electoral roll number of 45 million and an average need for 35% of the vote to get in

Comments

[e-halmac.livejournal.com]

Totally agree. I actually joined this group, not only becuase I do agree with the title (but would similarly join a "'I bet I can find a million people who DON'T want Nick Clegg/Gordon Brown/Bob from my local shop as our PM" on a whim), but mostly because I wanted to see what people were saying and talk about some of the issues (though I guess I could've done this without joining too). The first point (as part of a larger overal point I might add) I made in the group was that getting people to join the group wouldn't change the election, but it would be a forum to express opinion. And, yeah, someone had a go at me for mentioning, as part of a larger point, that joining wouldn't change anyhthng - my bad for bothering :) Anyway, my larger point, and the one I'm getting to, was that few of my peers vote regularly. I've voted in every election since I came of age and thinks it's important to do so - even in the silly elections. Glad to know someone else is one the same page on that one :D