Yesterday there was a by-election in the Hyde Park & Woodhouse ward of Leeds City Council. The result was a gain by Labour from the Liberal Democrats. But that isn’t the point of this post.
This was a hard fought by-election – leaflets were delivered, doors were knocked, hordes of brainwashed students were marshalled to support the campaign, telephones were manned, tellers clustered round polling stations and loud-speakers blared through the day urging the good citizens of inner-city Leeds to exercise their voting rights.
And what happened?
A shade over 2200 folk cast their vote.
This was a hard fought by-election – leaflets were delivered, doors were knocked, hordes of brainwashed students were marshalled to support the campaign, telephones were manned, tellers clustered round polling stations and loud-speakers blared through the day urging the good citizens of inner-city Leeds to exercise their voting rights.
And what happened?
A shade over 2200 folk cast their vote.
That is just 14.6% of the electorate.
Says a lot about the state of our democracy, don’t you think?
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