Do you vote the same way as your parents?

[Board Game Geek]

Far from it, I genuinely believe that what we call democracy in this country is utterly meaningless.

We get to "vote" once every 5 years or so and outside of election times the politicians completely ignore the voters. No representation
Constituencies up and down the country are safe seats where sitting MP's are guaranteed to be re-elected no matter what they do. No representation.
Unassailable majority governments are "elected" by a minority of the electorate. No representation.
Many MP's are permanently paired with a member of the opposing party so they never turn up, if they do appear their pair will too and vote the other way so a significant proportion of the constituencies have No representation.
Party whip system prevents MP's from voting against or for measures that will effect their constituents. Go against the whip and the MP is doomed to be deselected or at least permanently sidelined. No representation.
Politicians aren't subject to the same rules and conditions as their constituents and so lose touch completely at best or become totally corrupt. No representation.
Mismanagement or ineptitude has no penalty as the party system will protect them indefinitely with no kind of comeback. No representation.

The entire system is filled with graft, cronyism, dogma and corruption, as a result I have no respect for our parliamentary democracy and chose not to take an active part.

I was going to say, "in which case, surely your vote will help to clear away all the above and herald a new era of politics".

However, I've since realised that all that will happen is another government will get in and the above problems will continue....

Which does, in that sense, make voting pointless.

Voting is, in essence, an illusion to pacify the proles...