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10:31 AM

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Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Staying on the politics theme, Ben Hammersely had a great post yesterday called Stop asking questions and vote, dammit. addressing some of the issues about just why the connected generation just aren’t voting any more, summed up quite nicely with his closing line:

Why should I bother to vote, says the connected net-savvy demographic, when it’s plain to see that in every single arena the government is either making shit up or trying to appease Paul Dacre.