THE FAILURE OF POLITICIANS

The dawn of a new year and nothing seems to have changed. Still none of the mainstream political parties are addressing our concerns.

Listening to both David Cameron and Ed Miliband’s New Year’s speeches it appears that none of our political parties have grasped the basics that borrowing money cannot raise the country out of the mire. If the taxes that the government collect, which are enormous, cannot meet the bills, then the bills must be reduced. We must reduce spending and giving money away to ‘poorer’ countries. Can’t they see that Britain can no longer afford the ambitions of our politicians?

The scandals of the last few years has confirmed that both houses of parliament are now full of career politicians whose only interest is maximising their own incomes and they will not do anything that might jeopardise or cut it.. In past years MPs were there because they thought they knew what was best for the country, from Michael Foot to Enoch Powell. Yes, we may well have disagreed with their ideology, but we accepted their motivation. Whatever the current party leaders’ motivations are, ...well they certainly do not appear to be in the interest of the voting public!

I ask you; look at the present political landscape here in the UK, and just think about what our parties are offering. Ask yourself: is there anything that even remotely touches on the concerns that are most pressing to us?

Week on week, we hear about families up and down the country who are facing hardship. Many find it a struggle to feed their children, pay their fuel bills and higher stealth taxes combined with static wages has seen over 120,000 people seeking help from food banks. There are millions unemployed, and our welfare and education systems, housing stock and NHS are all creaking under the strain of years of Labours mismanaged immigration policies. We are fighting an unwarranted and unwinnable war, and today, the first working day of the New Year, commuters were faced a 6% rail fare hike!

And what are our MPs doing? Well, one side are concentrating on amending the laws so that Gay’s can get married, put cigarettes in plain packages and continue to send £50 million a day to fund or membership of the EU.

While the other lot are calling for constant public enquiries, and higher taxes to fund a no-nuclear, wind-powered future where everyone is equal and we all hold hands and celebrate the gorgeous mosaic of our diversity.

There are still a few MPs of the Enoch Powell, Thatcher and Foot sort in modern public life, but my impression of very many of today's politicians is that they've no particular principles, beliefs or aspirations, either for Britain or the world. They just want to be in office; once there they begin vying and jostling to take their turn to clime the greasy pole. Today, it would seem that becoming an MP is one of the ways in which clever and/or well-connected men or women can fulfil a more sophisticated way of the everyday chav's aspiration to be famous.

It’s become the political version of X-Factor. But in this version, it's not just the ‘plebs’ who've become "dumbed-down"!