UK election time

[Donk]

I'm not sure how many people on here have noticed, but the UK is having a general election on May 6th. We're in for four weeks of spin, dodgy statistics and downright lies, at the end of which we'll be faced with... what?

 

A few Members of Parliament will have lost their seats. A few newcomers will arrive, some looking for a chance to change the world, others looking for their place at the trough. Whichever of the two main parties is in government, it'll be business as usual - mostly positioning themselves for the next election.

 

The United States, Australia, Ireland, Greece, Iceland (and just about everywhere else) is climbing painfully out of a recession which, while not caused by the politicians, was certainly "nodded through" by them. In the UK, we've discovered that many, perhaps most, MPs have been cheating on their expenses. We've discovered that politicians, of all political colours, pay attention to their financial backers and the media. (We knew that anyway, but we didn't know that they paid attention only to the press and the money men.) Our opinion counts for nothing nowadays.

 

Except in the ballot box. If 60% or more of MPs were voted out, the remainder and the newcomers would get the message: Stop playing politics and get on with running the country. And run it for the voters, not for the entrenched interests. They would know that we're judging them, and if we don't like what they do we'll vote them out next time.

 

It would work. It won't happen, but I can dream :shrug:

[Buffy]

To quote George W. Bush, "Heckuva job Brownie!"

 

Oh, wrong Brown...but if a Labour PM can get along with Dubya, why can't a Conservative PM be a good partner with Obama?

 

If 60% or more of MPs were voted out, the remainder and the newcomers would get the message: Stop playing politics and get on with running the country. And run it for the voters, not for the entrenched interests.

Well, 2008 turned everything upside down in the US, with one of the most reactionary governments in ages being trounced, but the "lessons" learned were:

1. Republicans need to cater to the extreme right wing of the base, and should simply adopt all of the attitudes of the Tea Partiers, and
   
2. Democrats need to snub the progressives who really pushed the overthrow and chase after the "moderate" Republicans in the name of bipartisanship.
   

 

No, don't hold your breath Donk....

 

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight, :shrug:

Buffy