Sigh, it the old joke; don't vote - the government will get in
On one hand you have voter apathy, the biggest problem they have is whether their bins will get emptied every week - or perish the thought - every other week. On the other hand you have very complex issues, which if they were simple, someone would have fixed them by now (people falsly claming they can't work as they are disabled in someway).
Personally, I would vote for the party that would pass a law allowing me slice and dice (with sharp sword), the git that keeps trying to break into my house
Fundamentally, current politics are all about trying to please everyone, and in the process pleasing no one. Brown had a great chance to change things with the "credit crunch"; he could have annouced some big captial project to generate renewable energy etc. off the back of the crisis. He could have slapped at 95% tax on bonus over 100K, to take effect immediately. And perhaps more controversially removed funding for lawyers representing asylum seekers.
As a lifelong labour voter, even I can see that the party might do well for a few years in the wildness to get their act together again. Although I shudder to think what the tories will do, as I remember last time they were in power; and they still think Thatcher's 3 Million unemployed was the best of time
Of course, we could get involved in politics and try and make the system a better place - but I guess we are all too busy working for a living.