Most couldn’t even be bothered to vote

WHILE our elected leaders slap each other on the back for a job well done in the recent Welsh Parliament election, one topic appears to have slipped by unnoticed – the shockingly low voter turnout of 46.5%.

How can politicians claim to be acting on the people’s mandate when fewer than half feel enthused enough to vote? Such a low turnout tells me that apathy, rather than democracy, rules in

Wales. In fairness, the latest percentage is an improvement on the Assembly election of 2003 when turnout was an abysmal 38.2% so maybe the figures are moving in the right direction.

It’s funny that many of those lording it in the Senedd today were desperate to overturn the Brexit referendum result of 2016 when turnout in Wales was a whopping 71.7%.

According to the Remain diehards, the dumb Leave voters didn’t know what they were voting for and had been duped by lies and misinformation. Yet there’s no questioning the brain power or gullibility of voters in the Welsh Parliament election, with its puny turnout.

It seems all is tickety-boo with our leaders provided we vote the way they want us to.