[theo_luddite]

Umm - I don't think there was only 1500 voters in the difference Spireite and were those 1500 asked why they didn't vote in the first place?

Making it a minimum number (90%?) have to vote, minimum 60 or 70% required to win to make a change rather than a first past the post vote would have saved a lot of stupidity & huge amounts of money spent for no good reason. It would have also saved us having the country being divided 50:50 should we stay or should we go and the racism that has followed on. OK it was 48:52 if you want to be pedantic. That's still a lot of folk voting for common sense compared to a lot voting for the complete and utter bollox that they were led to believe by a bunch of clowns that mostly resigned as soon as they won because they no longer wanted to be part of the problem or even be the problem.

Then again, the Tories have shown on numerous occasions they can't run a piss-up in a House of Commons bar, but some fools keep voting for them.