Local elections 2021 | British values | Cooling towers | Giant wood moths Boris Johnson in Hartlepool with Conservative party candidate Jill Mortimer, after her byelection win. Stephanie Bailey points out that nearly two-thirds of the town’s electorate did not vote. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Boris Johnson in Hartlepool with Conservative party candidate Jill Mortimer, after her byelection win. Stephanie Bailey points out that nearly two-thirds of the town’s electorate did not vote. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Letters Fri 7 May 2021 11.37 EDT Last modified on Fri 7 May 2021 11.58 EDT Like Ian Campbell (Letters, 6 May), I too live in Buckinghamshire and had to force myself to go to the polls on Thursday to cast what I knew would probably be a wasted vote, although at least at local level, with three choices on the voting slip, I had some small chance of my vote having weight. However, until the system for electing our national government moves away from first-past-the-post, voters like me are in effect entirely disenfranchised.