It's easy to tell that there's an election coming up because one of the prospective candidates for my area sent me a letter with a questionnaire attached.
I looked at this thing over and over again because years ago I did vote for this particular party but the questions really didn't relate to me or what I thought the next government should prioritise.
For several days I puzzled over this and thought that maybe I should put all my ideas, grumbles and proposals in a letter. After all, I think it's terribly rude not to respond when someone asks you what you think.
Then I realised that I would end up with a very long letter which would probably be thrown in the rubbish bin anyway. Well, do you think any would be politician would really take serious notice of one of the peasant electorate, especially an opinionated old duck like me!
In the end, I tried to answer the questions but as with all questionnaires it only asked ambiguous questions so I had to make jottings and notes in the margins in order to correctly give him my opinions.
I doubt very much that I will hear from him again because the most important question was 'would I be voting for this party in the election?' and the answer to that is 'I doubt it very much because you don't really give a toss about what I think'!
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