TOMORROW you are being invited to go the polls –yet again – in the so-called ‘snap’ general election.

Prime Minister Theresa May seems to have aged since launching a campaign which started with her well ahead in the polls, but veered off course through screeching u-turns and an ill-advised refusal to turn up for a leaders’ TV debate.

Brexit was one of the main themes down south, while in Scotland the parties obsessed on whether or not there should be a second independence referendum.

There have been so many elections recently, however, that many observers are wondering if voters will actually bother to turn out again.

Council elections took place only last month, Scotland and Wales elected regional parliaments a year ago, when there was also the EU referendum, and it’s not that long since we had the last general election and ‘INDYREF1’.

So here we go again, with Inverclyde voters this time deciding if they want to keep an SNP MP or turn to Labour, Tories or Liberal Democrats.

Studies have shown turnout goes down the more often people are asked to vote over a relatively short period of time.

Plymouth University looked at many local government by-elections between 1983 and 1999, and discovered that, the less time between each poll, the lower the turnout. 
Another more recent study in Germany found similar outcomes.

So it’s up to you to buck the trend and make sure you place your ‘X’ tomorrow!