‘The presenter, 63, revealed he once did not vote because the choices were so “unappetising” and said politicians’ burning desire to order people about was “one of the many reasons they are so odd”.
“At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who’ve given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn’t raise student fees, and then did so – the most blatant lie in recent political history,” wrote Paxman.
“It won’t be a bombshell if very large numbers of the electorate simply don’t bother to vote. People are sick of the tawdry pretences,” said the presenter who dubbed the “whole green-bench pantomime in Westminster … a remote and self-important echo-chamber”.’
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