Abstention
Ballot boxes
are emptied, all votes reckoned:
The voters
who truly merit mention
Is the
largest group, who chose abstention.
They
realised more of the same beckoned
No matter
which party claimed victory.
The almost
landslide was surely absurd,
An
overwhelming triumph of a third
Of the vote,
which passes for democracy.
Front
benches in the Commons rearranged,
While
members of losing parties bickered,
Financial
markets’ index barely flickered;
All that campaigning,
and little has changed,
Apart from
the name on the PM’s door.
No wonder so
many don’t vote anymore.
D. A.
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