What democracy?

While I respect Janet Daley, I rarely agree with her! She offers some great arguments, but assumes that we have democracy, and seems to believe that government is on our side, somehow.

As such, in my view, she negates many of her own arguments.

We get to vote every 5 years on manifestos that aren't worth the paper they're printed on. None of the parties have any legal obligation to honour manifesto pledges.

We get to vote for candidates selected by the parties. So we either vote for them, or let the evil party back in.

All the parties have 'safe' seats, which means a job for life for the favoured few.

For fear of letting the commies in, we are tempted to vote for the "other" party - such is the great system we have in FPTP.

What point is there in voting for any of the main three parties?