We went out to vote tonight at around 7.45. As well as chuckling to myself at the length of the ballot paper, I asked the staff what the turnout had been like today. Out of a possible 1700 voters, only 300 had bothered to vote. I can't imagine many more people would bother in the remaining two hours available. I know this is a European Election, but I would have thought after recent events more would have taken the trouble to walk to the polling station.
I was talking to someone about an hour ago and he told me the turnout in his polling station in Leeds was around 50%, so this is encouraging. Why the people of Hull regard voting unimportant is something that still puzzles me.
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