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While dysfunction in the Republican Party is getting a 

 in the U.S., the British are engaging in a debate on the left between Sociatlists and Labour supporters.

"I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites. Billy Connolly said: 'Don’t vote, it encourages them,' and, 'The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one,'" comedian Russell Brand 

Actor Robert Webb says Brand's take on voting has led him to rejoin the Labour party, 

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While dysfunction in the Republican Party is getting a fair amount of attention in the U.S., the British are engaging in a debate on the left between Sociatlists and Labour supporters. “I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and…

Does voting support a broken political system?

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