Giving up

This week's had a fair bit of news, as weeks go. On the political front, Labour and the Tories are all setting out their stalls, and telling us that we'd be worse off under the other lot, leaving you to wonder why we trust a group of people whose dishonesty and avarice is blatantly obvious, whose opinion of the average voter is unprintable, and why we vote for people who know - no matter who gets into power next election - that everything's going to be more expensive, and that we're all going to be worse off.  PR with STV could solve a lot of problems, but the two big parties will continue to oppose it, as they know they'd lose out (that's the only reason, by the way) and thus make folk think twice before voting Lib Dem.  Until that changes, the government will continue to be elected by a minority of voters.

Meanwhile, back on the ranch, the potholes are appearing as the snow melts, and some of the rural roads resemble earthquake zones. Which brings us to Haiti. Despite being a Francophone nation, we've responded - as we always do - with generosity of spirit.  The Rotarians throughout the world are creating Shelterbox, uniquely designed for geophysical disaster areas on our planet and even the smaller groups are donating.  Trinity Players of Llandudno for instance, have just sent £1000 to the aid agencies to help and more than £2.5m has been raised in 3 days across the UK.

Why, we have to  wonder, when so many of our people are so unselfish, thoughtful and giving, do we continue to put up with the political shenanigans we do? Perhaps it's time to change.