DO Vote today! You may think it does not make any difference, but do these things matter to you: Hospital waiting lists, privatisation of NHS and selling NHS land, privatisation of the prison service, cuts in police and fighting crime, income that you work for taxed more than income on money inherited and capital gains, do we press the nuclear button first or last, our utility bills, fox hunting, grammar schools.

On these and other issues which concern us, the politicians decide, and they also look to see how many votes they get now and in the future.

And when you vote remember: It is no good coming third so you may need to vote for the candidate in with a chance, who you least dislike.

Please vote because at least you won’t think later ‘we have this government policy that I hate and I did nothing at the polling station’.

CORNELIUS CORNES

Hazel Drive, Ferndown

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