... vote. Turn-out is particularly dismal in the inner city, council estates, and poverty-stricken areas i.e. normally solidly Labour territory. The main factors playing their part in this electoral disenchantment are a growing sense, particularly amongst Labour's traditional supporters, that there is little to choose between New Labour and the Conservatives and thus little point in voting; the decline of the local Labour party in working-class areas; and a general feeling on the part of the public that politics and government cannot solve many of the major day-to-day problems (such as transport, crime, and drug abuse) that affect them. Yet if we are to determine the extent to which it is justifiable to say that many people feel completely alienated from Britain's political system, we should examine the different roles available to non-political factions of society, and then relate this to our original problem of poor electoral turn-out as an indication of disenchantment. In ...

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