On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:03:46 +0100, Jabba wrote:

Disagree. The size of the turnout is a powerful message to politicians
that they better find out why it is low.

******** it is. The tories always do well when it rains and keeps the
turnout low.

Small problem with that theory... It's ********.

2010 saw a sizeable increase in the previous two elections, which were
record lows. '97 was also a big dip on the previous three. '79 was a
spike over the second '74. Both the '60s Labour wins were dips from the
'59 Tory win.

The ONE even-vaguely-recent time that it's proven true was 1970.

http://www.ukpolitical.info/Turnout45.htm