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UK electoral turnout down on previous election

Friday, 13 December 2019 1:36 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 13 December 2019 1:39 PM ]

Disproportionate election system

London, UK - In what was arguably the most important election of a generation, voting figures in the 2019 UK general election have fallen to 67.23% turnout, down 1.47% from the 2017 election which saw a turnout of 68.7%.

With critical topics such as Brexit, the National Health Service, Education, Employment and the Economy all sour points on the tongues of many, why then was there a lower number of votes cast in comparison to previous years.

One such notion may be the British 'sick and tired' attitude to politics. In what was clearly a self-motivated political campaign by the Prime Minster, the weeks leading to the election saw a rally of lies, invented figures and deceit spread across the tiny island Kingdom.

Coupled with this is the fact that the British public have been constantly lied to since 2016 and the result of the EU referendum. On multiple occasions, both Boris Johnson and Theresa May stood in front of their peers and the population and repeatedly delivered false promises of leaving the EU on a certain date, only to disappoint their audience each and every time.

The turnout had been progressively augmenting since 2001, when just under 60% of the UK re-elected Tony Blair to Office, however, the first decline in several general elections may be a sign of things to come as the UK tires of political promises, personal scandals, false hopes and trust in a government that may still yet trip up on the last hurdle as Brexit and certain economic catastrophe awaits quietly on the horizon.

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