SIR – In your survey on worcesternews.co.uk, a third of Worcester News readers who responded said that they did not intend to vote this week, probably on the grounds of ‘they’re all the same’ and ‘it doesn’t make any difference how you vote’.

However, I am concerned that the right to vote, which was only grudgingly given over the course of hundreds of years and at the cost of many lives, could gradually be eroded if people do not use that right.

Within living memory women under the age of 30 years were considered unfit to vote, and not so long before then, people who did not own their own homes or had approached the State for financial support were disqualified.

If the will was there, ballot papers could be amended to include a vote for ‘none of the above candidates’.

As things stand at present, the conclusion may be drawn that if some people don’t use the vote they don’t need it, because they must be happy with how things are.

Don’t complain about what might happen next, history has given us many examples since the early 20th century.

DEREK FEARNSIDE
Worcester