What is wrong with British Politics?

February 10th, 2010 posted by admin
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What is wrong with British Politics?

I am a very cynical human being when it comes to politics. I don’t trust politicians, I don’t like their character most of the time and I don’t think many of them are in the job to help anyone except themselves.

Recently we have seen that most of our politicians (why we call them “ours” is beyond me) like to fiddle their expenses to gain a little more cash from their already overpaid jobs. This is so wrong I don’t know where to begin and yet all we are doing with the ones that are caught is firing them.

I don’t know about you, but if I was caught stealing money from anywhere I would be prosecuted and punished by the law. Yet, when a politician requests unnecessary expenses in the many thousands of pounds, nothing truly bad happens to them. They actually try to make themselves look good by saying they will pay all their money back. Yeah, right, only the money we know you took.

It is hard not to be cynical about these wastes of space who become so corrupted by the system that they lose sight of what really needs to be done to try and fatten their own wallets as much as they possibly can.

British politics are very weak right now, we don’t have a strong leader in Gordon Brown, a man whose own party doesn’t believe in, and the candidates from other parties look just as terrible. David Cameron in charge of the country? Energy saving aside, no thank you.

We have let the country get like this, us, the general public. We let these people take control when we stopped caring who was in charge. That is something I also have found it hard to understand. Why don’t people vote? We are talking about the one man who will dictate what you can and cannot do in the country and no-one cares. We are as much to blame for the state of British politics as the politicians themselves.

We need the country to care once more, we need a party we can believe in and trust and we need a leader to step up and do his job with commitment, honesty and the willpower required to be a good Prime Minister.