Unless you have been living under a stone for the last several months there is a general election here on Thursday (7th May)
I, for one, have had more than enough of the rhetoric and attempts to score hollow points victories.
I'm going to give you my honest opinion here
I've checked the wording on my polling card and guess what - all these leader debates, party political broadcasts, endless tedious interviews on the news, TV and radio were all to divert the attention from the question you are actually asking me.
In the election I am being asked to elect a candidate to be a member of parliament.
That is right I am voting for a PERSON, I am not voting for the prime minister, the government, or even for a party - I am electing a person to become a member of parliament
I am fed up, sick and tired, of politicians making up answers for me to questions that they have not asked.
The way the system works is amazingly good at NOT listening to the country.
Our next Prime minister will be the leader of the party that gets the highest number of seats in the house of commons - not the party with the highest number of votes, nor even the one best able to run the country.
The next guy who takes up residence at No 10 Downing street will not have been elected by the population, nor does he have a democratic mandate - an octogenarian monarch will actually invite him to form a government.
The leader (elected by his party members) will then unilaterally appoint the cabinet and the new (unvoted for) cabinet.
Somehow my vote for a local MP who is a person is somehow read into this one cross on a piece of paper into a vote for a party (that I may not have voted for), everything that the party stands for and every crazy idea that they will come up with in the next 5 years until they pretend to take an interest again in what we want.
I am also worried about how our process has evolved from - in the words of the US constitution
"Government of the people, by the people and for the people"
To "Government of the economy, by the elite, for the bankers"
I did find it interesting to notice when a colleague started talking about listening to customers requirements and meeting his needs and requirements our prime minister's eyes glazed over and within a couple of seconds he had lost interest and dismissed us as "pointy heads" as though the concept of listening to customers and doing what they want is alien to him?
I, for one, have had more than enough of the rhetoric and attempts to score hollow points victories.
I'm going to give you my honest opinion here
I've checked the wording on my polling card and guess what - all these leader debates, party political broadcasts, endless tedious interviews on the news, TV and radio were all to divert the attention from the question you are actually asking me.
In the election I am being asked to elect a candidate to be a member of parliament.
That is right I am voting for a PERSON, I am not voting for the prime minister, the government, or even for a party - I am electing a person to become a member of parliament
I am fed up, sick and tired, of politicians making up answers for me to questions that they have not asked.
The way the system works is amazingly good at NOT listening to the country.
Our next Prime minister will be the leader of the party that gets the highest number of seats in the house of commons - not the party with the highest number of votes, nor even the one best able to run the country.
The next guy who takes up residence at No 10 Downing street will not have been elected by the population, nor does he have a democratic mandate - an octogenarian monarch will actually invite him to form a government.
The leader (elected by his party members) will then unilaterally appoint the cabinet and the new (unvoted for) cabinet.
Somehow my vote for a local MP who is a person is somehow read into this one cross on a piece of paper into a vote for a party (that I may not have voted for), everything that the party stands for and every crazy idea that they will come up with in the next 5 years until they pretend to take an interest again in what we want.
I am also worried about how our process has evolved from - in the words of the US constitution
"Government of the people, by the people and for the people"
To "Government of the economy, by the elite, for the bankers"
I did find it interesting to notice when a colleague started talking about listening to customers requirements and meeting his needs and requirements our prime minister's eyes glazed over and within a couple of seconds he had lost interest and dismissed us as "pointy heads" as though the concept of listening to customers and doing what they want is alien to him?
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