[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Cashy, I think you are right.
But in actual fact no party has listened to the concerns of the electorate.
The politicians all think they know what is best for us.......and voting makes no difference to what will happen.
The 'New' Labour party was just the Tory party in sheep's clothing, but those who follow the party slavishly cannot (or perhaps will not) see this.
There is no true socialism any more (certainly not as we knew it anyway, maybe this is because now all the politicians have never done a real job of work.......but some(I did say some) supporters of the Labour party would vote for a donkey as long as it was wearing a Labour rosette.