[Margaret Pilkington]

They shouldn't..That is the answer, but you and I both know how deaf they are to the concerns of those people the elite consider to be the peasants, the uneducated, the plebs.
We are of little consequence. The politicians don't get any kudos for looking after their own folk, they get kudos from sending money to places where it can be siphoned off by corrupt leaders and despots....countries that have their own space programmes. The Department for International Development should be disbanded and those civil servants should be directed to forming strategies to address the current problems we have in this country. It won't happen because there is no benefit to our international reputation.

We should be giving nothing away while there is a deficiency in elderly care, social deprivation and the current crisis in our NHS....even though I really do believe that the problems in the NHS need an intelligent approach, and radical reform, rather than just money being thrown at them.