Politically disillusioned

Unknown said:

It's about making the least bad choice

All the parties are only interested in being power so they can do whatever they want when they get there.

For us, the disabled and vulnerable, we are just too small a percentage of the vote to be worth doing anything serious about. We are never going to make a shift in the power balance and it isn't as if we represent one political viewpoint so there is just too little return for the time investment needed to look after us.

We are also financially much more expensive to cater to than the rest of the population - they are not asking for every company in the country to implement a system where comms can be done without a phone (as one example) to for staff to be hired in organisations such as schoold and universities to make it easier for us to participate.

We are just not attractive to them other than to pay lip service to in the hope of getting votes.

In the bigger picture of the balance of power in the country, any party that stays in for 3 terms invariably becomes rotten. It is happening now, it happened to New Labour and it happened to the conservatives under Thatcher at the end.

I think all parties should be limited to 2 terms just to ensure the late stage rotteness is avoided, but that would no doubt bring plenty of its own problems too.

I agree with firemonkey that getting the current bunch out is more important than what is going to replace them - it would be hard to be any worse.

Have you looked into why it is that all political parties seem to turn to dog doo-doo after a while?

Have you looked into why it is that all political parties seem to turn to dog doo-doo after a while?

Jermaine said:

Have you looked into why it is that all political parties seem to turn to dog doo-doo after a while?

In my experience with the civil service it comes down to 1 simple thing.

Power corrupts.

Once people get into power then there are so many interested parties who want things done for their personal agendas (or business interests) that they are happy to bribe, blackmail or influence politicians who make the decisions affecting their interest.

I experienced a similar phenomenon in business once I started taking on major purchasing decisions for companies - the bribe offers come thick and fast as do the backstabbers.

Once politicians become mired in this swamp then they also find many others wanting their positions so they are further bogged down with attempts to unseat them, expose them or blackmail them, never mind the endless lies and misinformation that come with politics now.

They spend so much time and effort maintaining their position that they rarely get anything done and lack the bandwidth to do something decent when the opportunity presents itself.

At the end of the day I can only conclude that the people who seek out such positions are singularly unsuited to hold them.