And this is noticed, which feeds yet more cynicism and retrenchment into one's own.

It sounds like we rather desperately need hope and change.

Agreed, which is why a I don't go along with some of the generalised cynicism found on here. I prefer to support the least worse, rather than repeatedly denounce just about everybody in politics and the media.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.