 I don't want to discourage anyone from doing that, and there's really no excuse for it nowadays. He says don't get drunk and drive. About 60% of British voters turned out for the election. That's actually the lowest turnout in 23 years. I'm Vicki Barker in London. The carnage in Gaza kept this man away from the polls yesterday. Our tax money is paying for all these bombs. So that's why this year I've decided not to vote. On both sides of the Atlantic, the war in Gaza has complicated the political picture for candidates.