Has representative democracy become unrepresentative?

Is voting really animal instinct?

All three parties are against a referendum on the EU, are against withdrawing from the EU, are either continuing mass immigration or in favour of mass immigration, are against selective education and low tuition fees, are in favour of enforcing the word "marriage" for gay partnerships and are against capital punishment.

On all of these issues, issues that are central to the government of the UK, the three main parties take the same view, a view that differs from that held by the population. Without the trade deficit with the EU we would be wealthy, with social mobility we would be happier, with less murder we would be safer and with less immigration we would have less unemployment, less illiteracy, more money for the NHS, more space and a chance of our grandchildren surviving the 21st century (see The effects of immigration.). A prosperous economy, freedom from crime, social mobility, space and survival for your children and free speech, these are the main issues in politics yet British politics offers only one solution to each issue.

All of the main parties oppose much of the electorate on all of the main issues. What is wrong with the electorate? Why don't they vote for parties that represent them on at least one of the important issues? At least we should promise ourselves that we will never vote Labour, Tory or Lib-Dem again, never, just say no.

Opinion polls show that:

67% of voters would like a referendum on the EU

56% would vote to quit the EU

69% would like immigration to be reduced

47% of voters are uneasy about redefining the meaning of the word 'marriage' by law

Over 50% support the death penalty

54% believe that tuition fees should not have been raised (vs 30%)

57% of voters would either keep existing grammar schools or expand selective education

The facts:
Our trade deficit with the EU is over £50 billion per annum and a disaster, social mobility has declined since the abolition of grammar schools plus the rise in tuition fees, at about 600 per year the murder rate is more than double the rate when there was a death penalty, immigration is likely to expand the population of the UK to 70 million in 20 years (see Predicted population of Britain), house prices are almost 10 times median income as a result of population pressure - up from 4 times 40 years ago and the new marriage legislation along with the Equality Act 2010 make it a dismissable offence to suggest that the word "marriage" does not apply to gay people - yes you could be dismissed for free speech.

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