Canvassing in Braintree

Shoppers not citizens

Through gritted teeth I praise Polly Toynbee's piece

So politics is reduced to bribery and MPs to delivery men. Whose fault is it - the inadequate voters or the pusillanimous politicians? It's a fateful symbiosis in a downward spiral of political aspiration.

This from the woman who voted Lib Dem in the Council elections in 2002 as a protest against Tony Blair. I don't think she realised that Tony Blair wasn't standing in Clapham Common ward. I hope she's still happy with the Tory Liberal Council she helped to bring about.

Better to read Clapham Town's John O'Farrell on visits to the Soul Gym