By-election

Can't be bothered I expect. Shame though, wonder who the other 70-odd percent would have voted for?

A lot of people I speak to say: what's the point, they are all the same so it doesn't matter who gets in.

That was in the constituency where I live. We usually get a higher turnout. The weather was horrendous the night before with a lot of local storm damage all across this patch and some flooding on the boundary of this district, but don't know whether that would account for more than a small percentage. It's a safe Labour seat, so maybe some complacency, too.

And then there's the weather!

My mother's constituency too when and she didn't vote this time. She said she didn't want to go out in bad weather and that it really is one of the safest of 'safe' Labour seats, so I think complacency may be part of the answer, but she also said that she's still disgruntled about the MP expenses scandal.

I put my vote in the post, despite finding my dog had chewed the voting pack when I arrived home! I ironed the ballot paper and popped it in the envelope, hoping it wouldn't be a spoiled vote.

We had George Osborne, Nigel Farage and Ed Miliband being ferried up and down yesterday. Perhaps that's why people stayed indoors!!