A lot of people are still trying to decide whether there is any point bothering to vote in the European elections. The institutions seem distant, even forbidding. The current vogue for conspiracy theories is finding fertile ground: it won’t make any difference, the ‘elite’, united in their greed, will do whatever they want anyway …
At any level of government, deciding not to vote is the very worst attitude. Generations fought for the right to universal, free and secret suffrage: are...