Letter: Our national wealth was squandered
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir": What Pascal Smart and millions like him obviously have not considered by refusing to vote ("I'll not vote - it won't change a thing", 18 March) is that they can register their feelings of having no faith in any of the parties in a simple manner: the spoilt ballot paper. Non- voters leave no mark in history. But they could turn up on 1 May, collect their ballot papers and mark them: "I have no faith in any of these candidates."
The spoilt ballot paper records an opinion. It is a statement that will be published in every newspaper following the results. It is better to vote for nothing than not at all.
JONATHAN BEDFORD
Leeds
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