Apparently Polish Agency workers in Liverpool refused to cross the picket line of striking Post workers, instead they went to the pub. Very British.

Source www.libcom.org

Ina effort to invlove more of my readership in this blog and encourage good liberal things like dialogue and debate Ive set up a email liberalleslie@googlemail.com

Please feel free to email me any blogs you think i might like to post. (In your name of course) I want to leave the basic party bashing to my own posts but i would really welcome Philosophical/policy type posts again to encourage debate etc a liberal perspective is not neccessary indeed the more challenging your ideas the better, that said i get the final say on posts.

I am also attempting to launch my first community thing, please email any political jokes you might find, and I'll publish the good ones each week.
To kick things of
How do you know a plane full of union members?
It doesnt stop whining when it lands.

Thanks robert.

Was out surveying village x yesterday. The set up was pretty normal knock knock here’s a survey fill it in leave it in the letterbox over the next half hour or freepost it. Most people were out, of those were in most when the realised it was a survey on LOCAL issues were fine, the fact that we wouldn’t knock on the door was probably the clincher.

What was shocking though was the amount of people who weren’t interested, though in a extreme minority you would say we ask for your opinions on your street etc and they would still say I don’t care. Of all the people I’ve met in politics it is those that you knock on the door of and get a reply of “Don’t care”, “Your all liars” etc etc it is these I hold in most contempt. It might take good people to do nothing, but some people come across as so lazy they don’t qualify for good people. The don’t care attitude is for mostly a way of cleaning yourself of any responsibility for you, your country and community.

Democracy is pretty much the best system we’ve got, but it works on equal opportunity you have to actually turn up to vote to count. It goes without saying that lazyness in voters goes onto to create lazy and corrupt politicians.

The housing estate we were on was one of those big long winding ones only about 2 years old. As a result it backed onto a field that was interestingly empty, most interestingly was that at the end of a signposted dead end was a dropped curb, onto the field. As a local councillor said when they apply for planning permission they’ll care and of course and their councillors who can vouch for as hardworking will have to listen to them. For those local residents however it might be to late in other places they might not have a hard working representative. Still I live well out of said village so if the local residents don’t care why should I.

There goes my rant against the don’t carers, all is calmb. I do personally find it annoying that the whenever this topic is discussed it becomes the job of politicians to get people interested. This isn’t true, serious work can be done to mechanics of government to get people more involved and interested. But politicians as campaigners look for a majority of those who vote, voting at the end of the day is the responsibility of the voter.