I am not happy about low turnouts. I think that it is not a great situation to be in. There does need to be an effort to try to encourage more people to vote. I am not sure that compulsory voting is the solution.

I do think we need to change our voting system. FPTP is fine if you just have 2 parties.

Differences between parties are becoming harder to detect.

It would also help if parties would be more honest about what they will be able to do once elected. None of them seem to want to go down that route. Also voters need to be more realistic about what their parties will be able to achieve in 4 or 5 years.

Reform had an overwhelming win here in the Kent County Council elections. It will be interesting to see how they will manage in the next few years with rising debt and rising costs.