PAUL Anthony's pathetic attempt to justify not voting (Letters, June 25), just about took the biscuit.
Besides the fact that his views of schools and hospitals bear no relation to what is happening and that, as the fifth richest country in the world, we are not about to go 'down the pan,' why, if he is unhappy with the Government, does he not vote them out?
If he doesn't want to be part of Europe, why did he not vote for the UK Independence Party? His sitting at home did absolutely nothing.
People do not vote for a number of reasons -- the most common is that they simply forget. For Mr Anthony says that the large number of abstensions revealed a great disaffection with the Government, but one could argue in reverse -- that people were so pleased with the Government that they thought others would share their enthusiasm and the result was a foregone conclusion.
All the talk of there being no choice as a reason to stay at home is simply a means of the indifferent among us to justify their behaviour.
CRAIG EDGWORTHY,
Earnsdale Road, Darwen.
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