"If you can't stop people pissing in lifts..."

Lena May Jeger was a British Labour MP in the early 1950s. While campaigning for office in the postwar period, she discovered that the ambitions of national politicians are often quite different from the concerns of the populace.

[She] was canvassing in a block of flats when she met a woman in the lift and addressed her on the issue of German rearmament. “People have been pissing in this lift,” replied the woman. “What are you going to do about it?” To which Jeger said that, if elected, she could not promise to be able to stop this. “Well,” riposted the woman, “if you can’t stop people pissing in lifts, how are you going to stop Germans rearming?”