Pointless vote?

WHAT an anticlimax have been the 100 years since women were given the vote. Voting for self- serving politicians, who promise the world before taking office and then promptly betray the electorate shortly afterwards, is a pointless, short-term exercise.

Ballot boxes are only dusted off every few years to placate us and give the illusion that we are somehow in control of our destiny.

In truth, the gullible public have not the faintest idea of what — or whom — they are ultimately voting for. How many of Tony Blair’s fawning supporters envisaged he would bomb Iraq and Afghanistan?

Even when an apparently virtuous individual is elected, they are corrupted or undermined by backstabbers. Any good they achieve is hastily undone by their successor. HOWARD HENRY SMITH,

Penarth, Glamorgan.