> Instead of petition, people should wake up and vote

Agreed.

“Turnout at the 2024 general election was 59.7%, which was the lowest at a general election since 2001. Turnout was 7.6 percentage points lower than in 2019” [1].

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/general-election-2024-t...

That doesn't work for issues that are of secondary or tertiary importance from the perspective of almost all voters.

Especially in horrible electoral systems like the ones in UK you have to pick the least bad out of 2 options (every vote for third party is wasted).

I also really doubt that conservatives would behave any differently.

They did! They ousted an overtly-corrupt pile of idiots distilled down from a decade of party in-fighting over Brexit and replaced them with a well-meaning pile of idiots. Only time will tell how they do on big picture things.

But I can't vote for someone now. And even if I could, I can't vote for the person you're talking about because none of the constituency candidates talk about data security. And even if there were, would they align with the other things I want? And even if they did, would their party that delivered them a majority in Parliament also think their way or would that be an artefact and lost to party politics?

Telling people to vote better only works if there is a party who is championing the policy, and that they're also not arseholes in other areas.