Government ministers have expressed concern about the low turnout of voters at elections, which they perceive to be an indication of voter apathy.

Despite an often limited choice of governments and candidates, ranging from the merely incompetent to the shamelessly arrogant, I have never, in the past 50 years, failed to exercise my right to vote.

But the broken promises of the present prime minister have finally led me to seriously question whether my walk to the polling station will ever again be worthwhile.

Of one thing I am sure. Unless this government takes positive action to ban hunting with hounds and also reduces, or preferably abolishes altogether, the numbers of animals used in research laboratories, I shall find something better to do with my time on the day of the next General Election.

-Peter Allen, Chute Avenue, Worthing