Why nobody will get my vote

There are six candidates in my constituency, all of them belong to political parties, as they belong to a party, I have to wonder whether their loyalty will be to the local community that elected them, or to the party that selected them.

I believe that far from having the solution to our problems, political parties are part of the problem, and as long as they are part of our system nothing will change - it is simply not in their interest for it to do so.

We do not live in a democracy we live in an elective oligarchy, to be fair it is an open oligarchy these days, but it is still an oligarchy. All power is centralised in the state and its bureaucracy, and that state and its bureaucracy has a vested interest in maintaining itself even at the expense of those whom it claims to represent.

As long as power is distributed from the centre we will not have true democracy. We need to develop a system where power is vested in the local community and, where needed, those communities come together to share power at a higher level.

The only question for me is this, do I go and spoil my ballot, or just not bother at all?