Further on yesterday's blog.
Yesterday afternoon I got an email
reply from the Liberal Democrat candidate, Paul Reynolds. This
morning, in the post, I received a letter from the Labour Candidate,
Lyn Brown.
I
suppose I should be happy now, four out of the five main candidates
have finally replied to my email, but it all feels very hollow. How
many of those replies would I have got if I hadn't badgered them
through social media?
Yes,
they are busy campaigning (So they say though I have seen very little
of it in my area) but they are not doing it alone. They have
assistants, other people involved in their campaigns, volunteers and
an organised political part behind them. I emailed them with plenty
of time, I spent my email out on the 5th
April, and it was only when I started blogging about it, and sending
links to those blogs directly to the candidates that I started to get
replies from them, before that I hadn't even got an acknowledgement
of my email.
As I
posted yesterday, campaigning in my area has been pitiful, a handful
of fliers pushed through our front door and that's all. I would love
the chance to quiz these candidates face-to-face but I haven't see
any local events or campaigning.
Is
politics losing touch with the voters, is it being run just for the
benefit of politicians or am I just getting too cynical?
Drew
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