A voter no more

By The Newsroom

Published 20th Jan 2014, 10:07 BST

Duncan Barkes’ comments in his column about voting and those who do not use their vote(Gazette, January 2) were very strong.

I have used my vote for about 60 years or more, but will never vote again, and here are my reasons.

At the age of 80-something, I have decided that I cannot trust my so-called representatives any more. We have seen a few MPs prosecuted for abuse of the very liberal expenses system, and a man who was once the top charger in local government is now an MP.