Shame about the meeting.

On the note of the safe seat issue here, I've heard about this a lot and echoed the sentiment to others when talking about how pointless my vote is here.

But recently I decided to have a look and although Labour got 41.1% of the vote in 2010, that was a percentage of all votes actually cast. With an overall turnout of 65.2%, there were still more eligible voters who abstained than those who voted for any single party.

Labour got 26.8% of the eligible voters to vote for them. 34.8% didn't even vote. That's 24,033 people compared to Labour's 18,501 votes. Less than 6000 votes separated Labour and the Lib Dems, in second place.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2...cy/c61.stm

If these non-voters participated, they'd have the ability and opportunity to bring about change.

I'm not suggesting this will happen and I don't know what could bring this about (though I'm sure I could suggest many, many ideas), but it would be a shame if some people didn't vote because they believed it was a completely pointless exercise in a safe seat.