Mike Graham voted once, in 1979 for Labour. He stopped because he lived in safe seats where it felt pointless, then deliberately stayed away from voting to keep his columnist voice independent. He compares it to a sports commentator who refuses to pick a team.
No.
There's a story that not many people know. I've only ever voted once in my life, in 1979, and I voted Labour. Wow. It was partly because I then moved to America and I lived there for a while, and then when I came back, I constantly was living in places where it was such a massive majority, it didn't seem worthwhile. And then as time went on and I became a bit more of a kind of maverick columnist, I thought to myself, you know, it's actually better not to vote because I can feel less affiliated to anyone. It's a bit like not having a football team. Who do you support? And I was like, don't really support anyone. Well, how can you be a football commentator, then? Because I can be forensically clean. I'm not tainted by loving Arsenal, Tottenham. I don't want to be affiliated with any particular party. And that way I feel as though I can be more critical and I can be more honest. Even with what you just said about reform and how bad you think Labour are doing, you still wouldn't vote? No.
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