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questioning *why* people would rather watch telly than choose who should run their country.
Because a majority of the population has its concepts of priority so severely warped that the small matter of who runs the place doesn't matter to them. I think that's actually quite a simple answer. How to change their perception is quite another question.
*why*
Because no matter what you individually feel their are a lot of people who are actually too ignorant, lazy and stooopid to vote. The paper thin excuse not to vote that 'they're all the same, the lying ****s' is almost exclusively used by people who try not to think as it causes their brain to hurt, but you are the exception to this rule. Personally I'd rather pop down the polling station and wipe my arse with the ballot than be grouped with that sector of society.
I'd be interested to know the split of voters / abstainers (or not bothered) by educational attainment. I think you'd find that the more educated someone is the more likely they are to vote.
A voter in Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough has contributed one vote to the electoral process.
Yes, but how much influence does that vote have on the overall result of the election? I'd imagine the politicians pay just about as much attention to a vote there as they do to a spoiled ballot.
Anyway, back to the original point, what we talk about now is the next election 🙄