McAz wrote:When did you last tramp the streets in pursuit of your principles?
The last time was about 2 months ago, organising a campaign to get utility companies to deal with local residents more fairly over charges for upgrading or replacing gas, water and electric supplies.
Before that, I was on a local council committee involved in getting fibre-optic broadband into small towns between Carlisle and Stranraer,
I've been an active member of the BASC for more than 20 years and I've been to Westminster and Edinburgh to speak to MPs, MSPs and lords about gun legislation - and succeeded in achieving a variety of concessions new bits of firearm legislation.
That also led to me acting on behalf of the paintball community between 2004 and 2007 to get concessions put into the VCRA, excluding paintball guns from legislation pertaining to other "imitation weapons".
Course, I didn't do any of that by myself. I was just one of a dozen or so people involved.
I like to think I've done my bit though.