In line with the trend found all over the world, the biggest statement made by UK voters in the General Election came from those who rejected the ballot box.

Fewer than three out of five voters chose to take part in the election, figures showed today. The turnout slumped to an average of 57.77% - some 13% down on the 1997 average - after 491 results out of the total of 659 were declared. Turnout fell to as low as 34% in some seats, including Liverpool Riverside. The low turnout came despite Government schemes to get voters out, including new postal voting rules and updating the electoral register.

So we have now reached a new low point in non-wartime elections in which more than 42% of the electorate chose to stay at home rather than vote in an election in which they know their vote does not count and will not change anything, no matter which party is in office.

The political parties see this trend as either "shocking" or "disappointing", but I think it is wonderful because in voting in a rigged system we are given credence to it. The politicians are suggesting that the collapse in turn out was because the opinion polls showed that Labour was going to win easily. But it is the same across Europe and in the USA where the Bush-Gore election could not have been closer (officially anyway).

We have come to the sorry day when the most effective way to make your feelings about the system heard and have your views registered is not to vote at all. That is the best way to expose the system for the irrelevance it has become. More of it, I say.

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