As the forthcoming General Election looms we are being asked to line ourselves up against the major issues - the NHS, public spending, immigration, Europe and crime. It is our ‘civic duty' to, on one day, provide a mandate to politicians for the next five years, to make countless decisions in these areas, to change and shape policy, to possibly ‘pause', to possibly ‘u-turn'. 

But how do we feel about being considered a statistic to be aggressively wooed every few years?  And then to have our opinions second guessed during the intervening period?