Why you should vote on May 4th
On 4th May 2006 local elections are to be held for 176 local authorities across England (including the 32 London Boroughs) each of which is divided into several wards.
Local elections have a notoriously low vote turnout, sometimes as low as 26%. Probably the majority of people can’t be motivated to vote in such elections, when they can’t really see that the outcome would make a huge difference them whichever of the three major parties wins.
But what if the racist British National Party (BNP), which still talks about repatriating non-whites to their country of origin, won a local election in your area by a matter of a couple of hundred (or even fewer) votes? Then you would probably kick yourself for not voting.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
After reading this last month, I was determined to actually vote (for the first time in my life). However I never made it (okay, I know that’s slack), because I was just knackered by the time I got back from uni. I hope I won’t e so lax when the general election comes!