My political foray

It's gradually been dawning on me that we all need to seize control. I know some of you think I'm wasting my time and money supporting the National Health Action Party. But I don't think I am. I've never been a member of a political party before and, until Eastleigh, I had never been canvassing. It's never too late to learn.And I have learnt a lot. The hostility shown on the doorstep was an eye-opener. The people of Eastleigh came over as utterly disenchanted with the political process. Who can blame them? I feel the same way. We are in the era of disenchantment. We don't feel we have any control. The politicians just plough on regardless. And their direction of travel is wrong.The other thing that dismayed me was how the propaganda originating from our masters and spewed out by our complacent and compliant press is actually believed. The badmouthing of the NHS has been so widespread and sustained that the public now think that the good care they themselves may have received has been the exception rather than the rule. You can't overturn entrenched views. Evidence cuts no ice on the doorstep. Politics is about belief.A comment on my previous post mocks the efforts of the NHA Party in Eastleigh. Mocking is easy. Doing nothing is easy. But trying to do something to improve matters is difficult - especially if you make no progress and are ridiculed.  But today I feel that there are signs that the tide is turning. I awoke this morning to news that the prime minister himself ...
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