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Date: 26 September 2006 15:09:01
Isn't it fun watching politicians argue amongst themselves?
They want us to believe that they are capable of making decisions that effect every area of our daily lives. They believe that they know better than the general public what is in our best interests. When they make decisions we disagree with they tell us that it's their right as they were elected to make them. If we don't like it then all we can do is elect someone else every 4-5 years.
Why is it that people don't vote in the numbers they used too? Could it be that the politicians are no longer engaging with the public? Could it be that the public are fed up with a democratic process that does not deliver what is wanted? How can people with no experience of many of the areas in which they deal know more than the experts in those fields?
They waste billions of pounds/dollars/yen/peanuts on IT schemes that don't work; they declare war on countries using faulty intelligence, if not deliberate lies; they make rules that interfere with the minutae of our lives and aren't needed; they mortgage our future on Private Finance Initiative schemes that deliver less for way more money and use Enron style accounting practices to hide the true cost from us.
Yet we let them.....
If you are unhappy about the way in which your country is governed, in your name, then make your voice heard. If you want to ease poverty in Africa, save the environment or stop an unjust war then you need to say something. Don't just join organisations and do nothing. Don't just march in protest. The most effective thing you can do is write or e-mail. No just your local representative but the department concerned.
The trouble with elected officials is that they mix with people divorced from real life. They don't really talk to the public, they rely on opinion polls and "special advisers". The more they hear from members of the public the better, especially from Christians.