I think we are now a nation completely disillusioned. We are sick of being lied to and no longer believe in our so called representatives.
Watching the UK parliament on the BBC is much like watching a crèche of infants throwing tantrums and names at each other. It is truly one of the most pathetic sights to behold. Men and women in their thirties, forties, fifties and older behaving like squabbling toddlers, stamping their feet and jeering at the opposition. Pathetic is the only word to use.
Looking around the world, it seems this is not an isolated matter, although perhaps for varying reasons. Politicians are no longer seen as representatives of the public, but as business men and women, trying to out-do one another is a field where they should be showing co-operation towards a common goal, that of the improvement of the lot of their voters.
One point that all politicians seem to have forgotten is that they are servants. They serve the people who put them in office, not the other way around. A politician is a servant of the people and yet the only people they serve are themselves.
Many of us are aware that when a party comes into power they are subject to laws and regulations within the government itself. Civil servants keep them in line. Perhaps they are not aware of just how much power the civil service has, but they are not completely restrained from making the changes they claim they will, prior to election.
It seem to me that election these days means not obligating the manifesto’s they create to become elected.
I would like to hear any suggestions as to what could be done about this!
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