[Margaret Pilkington]

and with reference to that article, isn't it what many of us have been saying for such a long time...that the major parties hold the electorate in contempt, and yet dyed in the wool Labour/tory supporters still flock to vote for the party which despises them and treats them like lackeys.
Isn't this why democracy(if ever there was such a thing) is treated with suspicion, isn't it why the levels of voters have fallen at each election...it isn't apathy, but distrust of the political system.

If you feel that your vote means nothing, will change nothing, then why would you give it to a party that values it so lightly? Promises much and delivers nothing...or certainly nothing that was promised to them(EU referendum).