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Should we vote? DAVID GRAEBER: I'm an anarchist, so for me, that means not telling people what they have to do. I think it's really your call. You have to make a judgment call, how much do you want to vote no, against the system as a whole, in any given instance? Or how much do you want to intervene in a system you know to be corrupt and dysfunctional, just to create some worse form of damage? I think most people who vote, vote against somebody more than they vote for. What difference does it make if we get Labour or Tory? DAVID GRAEBER: At this moment, it makes a lot of difference, I'm afraid to say because when people talked about Brexit, they talked about it in the abstract. Look, I hate the Eurocrats as much as anybody but the immediate effect of having a Brexit under current existing circumstances, is giving the Tory party, carte blanche to rewrite the economic and social structure of the country, that's will be a disaster. What can we do to get rid of the current government? DAVID GRAEBER: Well, I think that anything you can do to spread the word, is good. I mean, the thing about Theresa May, is she's kind of a terrible candidate. She's a very unlikeable person, she's basically a robot. She can't interact with anybody, this is why she's terrified to actually debate anyone. She misdoes the cues. She can read a speech quite well. I would say, urge people, to show up in a chicken suit every time she shows up anywhere and like, shame her into actually debating people about issues. As soon as people are exposed to who she is, I think her vote will collapse. 8 ISSUE 99 / 2017 REAL MEDIA WHAT EFFECT WILL YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE ON THE ELECTION? Lots of young people have been registering, what effect will they have on the election? Recently there was a poll that said that if only under 45s voted, Labour would win in a landslide. There has been an intergenerational divide. Naturally, over 60s tend to vote more, but also we've seen in the Euro elections, the general elections, and then the Brexit elections, we're deciding the fate of young people. There has been a perception that the baby boomers have taken the gifts given to them by previous generations and then pulled up the ladder underneath them. Housing, education, healthcare, all of these gifts remain with them and maybe not the young people. Other people have argued that maybe that's unfair, and that there isn't actually a generational battle, and in fact we should be concentrating on what affects us all, because of course actually the Conservatives are attacking old people as much as young people, and a lot of the services that affect them. Anyways, in regards to voter registration, that 80% of new voters who registered are under 45 is very significant. They'll almost certainly be the vast majority registering to vote against the Conservatives. That might be SNP, Plaid Cymru, Lib Dem, or Labour. Probably the majority are Labour, but also we don't tend to poll unregistered voters at this time. The polls have been notoriously incorrect for the past three or four years on pretty much every occasion, so we're now in a situation where although the polls put the Conservatives in a significant lead, which has been shrinking, they may be wildly incorrect, so that actually these new voters make up now, in about 40 constituencies, the margin of victory. This is a very significant development, and what comes of it, we don't know, but what we do know is that it's not been talked about much. We don't know where these votes are going, but it probably looks like quite positive for Labour and anti-Conservative voices. Remember: 22nd May is the last day you can register to vote – Search 'Register to vote' or go to www.gov. uk/RegisterToVote and make your voice heard in the election. Thomas Barlow, Senior Editor at Real Media, talks about the effect young people can have on the election We asked anarchist anthropologist, and economics professor David Graeber his thoughts on the choices in the upcoming General Election. SHOULD WE VOTE? WITH DAVID GRAEBER