Many people feel completely alienated from Britains political system. Discuss.

The British political system is one that is multi-faceted and slightly ambiguous, mainly due to a lack of a formal, written constitution.  Yet it is clear upon closer examination that many people feel completely alienated from Britains political system.

One medium, through which many people have shown their feelings of alienation and diminishing attachments to the main parties, has been through increasing volatility as an electorate.  The proportion of the registered electorate has fluctuated but the underlying trend is downwards.  It has fallen from almost 84% in 1950 to 72% in 1997 (the…(short extract)