We're fewer than two weeks away from one of the most important dates on this year's calender here in the UK.

If you've just awoken from a lengthy coma, or perhaps recently returned from six weeks deep in the Amazon jungle, I am of course talking about the General Election taking place on July 4 - and it feels like a big one.

Why, then, are the vast majority of people in Cornwall still refusing to engage with the task ahead of them?

Here at the Packet my colleagues have noticed a distinct lack of interest in political articles, including ones that provide insight in to how candidates would tackle some of the country's most complex issues.

A case in point: a 3,900-word report setting out the West Cornwall constituency candidates' views on important topics from housing to mental health and schools has, at the time of writing, had just 245 views.

In contrast, a piece about boulders being put on a Cornish beach has been read 39,000 times.

Are we to understand that voters have been carrying out their own in-depth interviews with candidates individually and have no need for this information?

Do they simply plan to put a cross in the box the same colour they always have, because it's easy?

Or, more worryingly, do they not even plan to vote at all?

Let's hope this apparent apathy isn't reflective of electorate turnout when the polling stations close on July 4.

Un-informed decision making is bad enough. But actively giving up your right to a decision at all is worse.

If the Cornish can march on London - some 300 miles on foot - in 1497 to make their feelings known to the government of the day (then be killed for their troubles, in the case of the two leaders) surely you can make it to your local polling station. The spirits of Michael Joseph 'An Gof' and Thomas Flamank are watching you.