Human nature (in the main) is to let somebody else do the work for them. This applies in every walk of life regardless of their political stance.
It's a sad fact of life but a fact all the same.

Edited by TUX (15 May 2015 10.08pm)

I've always found it amazing that retired workers who are still members of the union get to vote on strike action. They won't have to walk out and lose a day's pay (must be some sort of power trip to be able to insist on people who actually stand to lose out by strike action when you won't personally be affected).

The comparisons with elections are, of course, fallacious (as I'm sure those making them are well aware). Expecting a decent majority in a yes/no decision seems far more reasonable than expecting it in a Con/Lab/LD/Green/UKIP/SNP/PC/Other choice.

If you get a quarter of the votes in an upwards of 6 horse race, you're doing pretty well.

Anyone who is still working and fails to vote is a bit spineless in my opinion (I can understand the whole "none of the above, they are all weasels" attitude in an election, but "I don't know whether to strike or not so I'll just leave it to others to decide" seems an indication of indifference to the issue)

I would disagree with you on 'progress'. Your view is rather nihilist, and it assumes that progress has to be grand and overarching, when it can happen in little increments. Would you not say gay marriage legislation was progress? The introduction of the NMW?

No, I'd call it change. Progress presumes some truth towards which we march, but there is no truth and that somehow the future will be a better tomorrow, not different.

In reality, the world changes and people change and society changes, but its not for the better, its just change, and it can go 'the other way'

I hope the clergy have a union.