- Glenn Gottfried, Quantative Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research, and Sarah Birch, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Glasgow
Panel asking why it's bad people don't vote, isn't it because they're content? #Voterengagement- Glenn Gottfried says this is not true, people are not happy, that's why they're voting increasingly for populist parties. #voterengagement
- More subtle that parties thinking 'they're not turning out so lets not cater for them #voterengagement
- The reason this is important is because all voices count, it undermines the system if people are left out #voterengagement
- Important that all voices count, if their voices aren't being heard and they're not being represented, that's a problem #voterengagement
- If people aren't voting who are 'like me' then there's no point in me going and trying to vote #voterengagement
- ...because it means that my vote won't count for much - it's a Catch 22 #voterengagement
- Policies are introduced which benefit the old disproportionately, because the young turn out to vote less #voterengagement
- We have to look at people getting on the electoral roll. The official turn-out figures only talk about people who are on it #voterengagement
- People who are mobile, minorities etc. are not on the electoral roll - individual registration will help #voterengagement
- Russel Brand's view point - that the young should't vote - being out there might be a step forward #voterengagement
- Because it forces politicians to engage with that view properly and say why people should vote #voterengagement
- Are politicians the best people to adjudicate on this issue, aren't they biased in favor of the status quo? #voterengagement
- They're the best we have #voterengagement
- If political parties had a different set of values that appealed to people currently not turning out... #voterengagement
- ...would that change results in key marginals and dynamics of politics #voterengagement
- There'll be a dramatic change in the electoral register with the electoral registration reforms. #voterengagement
- Unequal turnout will look *even* more acute #voterengagement
- It's not necessarily going to effect the declining voting figures, although there is some data to say it helps... #voterengagement
- ...because parties are more likely to pound the pavements (in marginals) when there are more people registered #voterengagement
- There was a generation of people after WW2 who turned out, mobilised by the immediacy of politics. #voterengagement
- Decline in turnout is linked to lack of trust in politicians #voterengagement
- *Always* been difficult for politicians to convince citizens that they're there for the right reasons #voterengagement
Voter Engagement 27.02.2014
HoC Political & Constitutional Reform Committee
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