Where do we go now?
I first became aware of politics as a 15 year old in 1959. I well remember that famous Macmillan poster which went something like; "Life is better under the Conservatives. Don't let Labour ruin it" And they didn't . Nearly 80% of the electorate cast their vote then and the party of 'Super Mac', which had been in power since 1951, got just less than 50% of the votes. Scroll forward to last year's General Election and a very different picture emerges. Just over two thirds of the electorate bothered to vote and just over one third of them gave the same Conservative Party a working majority at Westminster. That works out at around 25% of those entitled to vote.
