[Margaret Pilkington]

Hmmmm. Well, when one thing is promised, and something different is delivered you can understand why a lot of us feel pretty peed off.
And sometimes politico speak is about as intelligible as monkey language....but that (I suspect) is done on purpose to baffle and befuddle.

It is very poor when a large proportion of the electorate(and no, of course I can't quantify it...it is anecdotal)do not trust their elected representative.....whether that be at a local level(and I know local politics is a totoally different ball game) or a national level.

People aren't not voting because they are too lazy to stir their stumps, they are not voting because it seems as though it changes very little for us who live here in the real world.
I am only one vote, but if my vote is the one which decides the result, then I should be able to feel that my voice will be heard....and at present I don't have that confidence.