It kind of spoils the message when you slip into hyperbole
You can't prove either of those things and never put down to malice what can be more easily explained with incompetence.
As someone else said, both parties are just sides of the same arse. I've been voting for 40 years or more and the calibre of politicians just keeps falling each time I vote. Johnson and Corbyn were the low points for me. Neither had a fucking clue about leadership, policy or diplomacy and I wouldn't have put either in charge of a stationary cupboard. Why people voted for them I will never understand.
How many politicians have spent their careers entirely in politics? Or in law, so that they develop an air of looking down on everyone else. Most have no real empathy for the average person, why would they? They never mingle with them.
Nothing will change until we change MPs and how they are motivated. I would personally like to see their salary tied to delivering election commitments, and paid well for doing so. I would also like to see recalls for any misdemeanor, and no moving into lobbying at the end of a career.
Pay them really well, but attach the kind of strict rules that mean to get booted out for breaking any rule.
(, Tue 1 Feb 2022, 18:42, Reply)