FORCE-fed acceptance! Strong words, I know, but I feel that's the way we're being governed.

They don't ask 'what do you want?', 'what do you think?'. Oh no! It's 'you will have it' and 'you will do it'.

Did anyone ask us whether we would like extended licensing hours that have our young folk out on the streets at three in the morning, with no moderating influence of older people?

Were we consulted whether we wanted a blanket ban on smoking - something that has affected the social life of a lot of ordinary working folk?

Were we asked whether we wished to become a multi-cultural society? Or have our laws come from Europe?

And who was the idiot that decided parents and teachers could no longer chastise children? Note I say chastise, as obviously I'm against beating'.

Did anyone discuss with us going to war, invading another country?

No, they didn't - and what's the outcome of this nannying interference?

People left feeling, frustrated and confused!