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  Thanks Gary
  
  My own take on this at a local level boils down to the fact that for the best part of 50 years the hopes and aspirations of Dovorians have been regularly shattered by performance of all 3 of our local authorities. It has now got to the point that people are so distrusting of local authority figures and institutions that it manifests itself as apathy. IT IS NOT. It is distrust and a tired acceptance that no matter what is promised it will 90%+ of the time never materialise. The challenge therefore for local government, local charities and community groups/projects is how to show that things are being delivered.
  
  As for the national level, politicians have totally lost touch with ordinary people; this is true of all political parties. There is a short termism demonstrated that is based on the electoral term that ill serves the rest of us who think in much longer time periods. Also people distrust the political mantra and dogma about "taking responsibility" when politicians/political parties/governments blatantly take no responsibility for there past and present actions/decisions. These people have blatantly forgotten who serves who...

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