Robert Durward, author of 2024, shares his ideas on how he would fix it. (Hint 1984+40=2024)
12 Replies to “The UK Political System is Broken”
Their main priorities they would all include the following; a roof over their head, employment, good education and healthcare, efficient public services, affordable energy and reasonable taxation.
You get all that provided to you as a child or in prison. I do not want a Nanny Government telling me what to do for my own good. I do not want Big Brother telling me I must celebrate diversity, and I must reduce my carbon footprint while they jet off to exotic locales and dine on the finest delicacies while railing the climate is being destroyed by my air conditioner. Robert is just another Nanny, but maybe he will only control 1/2 or 3/4 of my life, not all of it.
Priorities? How about Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness? How about Freedom?
How about Government getting out of housing, providing jobs, schooling, healthcare, and energy? Has Government done anything but screw these up?
NHS? Obamacare?
Section 8? The Estates/Housing Projects?
Schools where half the kids don’t graduate, and those that do know nothing?
Berkeley Free Speech?
How about those Ontario Hydro rates?
“You can’t drill your way out of high oil prices!”
The real problems are career politicians and a stupid electorate. The first could be cured by the imposition of term limits – if anyone knows what to do about the second, please let me know.
Get rid of universal suffrage and go back to the days when you had to be a net contributor to society to be allowed to vote would be a start.
Proportional representation where you get 1 vote for every $5000 personal income and consumption tax paid. Income from the public trough doesn’t count.
@ Jamie, I agree about the career politicians. Too many now graduate with some degree in economics and politics and go straight into a party structure and end up as MPs with zero experience of real life. I am more conecerned about stupid politicians and stupid media reporters than I am about the electorate.
Are our political systems broken, or are they simply being horribly abused and undermined by the delusional and corrupt?
I learned a long time ago that you will never truly appreciate the great things in life unless you suffer your share of the bad things too.
Far too many big-city liberals with no real concept of hardship or sacrifice also have ZERO concept of the fragility, rarity or value of the great freedoms many of our ancestors gave their blood for.
Sigh.
I’d go one step further…anybody who is in the employ of any level of government with the exception of those in the military cannot vote.
Funny how all the geniuses who want to fix the system want to take away some rights and to give others. Perhaps the system of government that has slowly evolved since 1066 works just fine.
Hear, hear!
“Priorities? How about Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness? How about Freedom?”
This is what most of the electorate wants and works at daily. The amount of time that it takes the average family to achieve this to some level precludes more active participation in the political process and when they see that career politicians are more concerned with power and ideology than advancing the above aims of the electorate they tune out and stay home on election day. Further, the electorate sees the media as biased and in ideological partnership with the politicos and is further alienated. Add to this that some of the electorate that pays attention to what is going on knows that the upper level entrenched bureaucracy is part of the power structure and works to perpetuate the ideology that sustains them. All of this leads to people becoming disengaged, as they think ‘why should I bother voting, it makes no difference’.
In the US in the last election enough of the electorate finally became engaged enough to elect an outsider with life knowledge as POTUS and now watches as all the Deep State coalition of media, bureaucracy and political parties (even the party that should be supporting the candidate) trying to destroy the duly elected president. The fact that almost all of the educational system and media has been totally taken over by one radical ideology, as warned about by Yuri Bezmenov, the ex-KGB operative, aggravates this in the extreme. Again, people think, why bother, nothing I can say or do to stop this.
Local small rural and urban municipal councils still work for the taxpayer. The larger urban municipal have become nothing ideological battlegrounds with the left generally being in control as they offer free lunches and circuses rather than “Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness”. The provincial or state governments are worse and at the national level the only concern is ideological.
Jamie and Canadian Observer make excellent points.
The concept of banning parties might – or might not – be laudable, but it is unworkable. Birds of a feather flock together.
If by some miracle a legal ban on official parties was enacted, within a fortnight there would be a group of ‘independent’ MPs wearing blue ties in one corner, another wearing red ties in another corner and so forth. And while there might not be an official party structure, one could be sure that they would ‘unofficially’ recognize an honourable member as their spokesman, vote essentially the same way on critical measures and so forth.
I think what is needed is to bring somehow restore the rights of MPs which have been so steadily eroded over the years – by all parties. No whipped votes, no caucus solidarity, just vote your conscience to represent the wishes of your constituents.
I know, I know. But I have this dream…
The UK and Canadian political systems are not broken, they are, in fact, functioning exactly as intended.
yes scar, hitler and Nazis worked real well. I bet if I told you that government employees don’t effectively pay taxes, nor do any company employees , were the companies sole income is from government contracts, that these people have a vested interest to vote for their own $$$$$, and therefore do not deserve to have votes that carry the same “weight” as an actual tax payer, you would try and bullshit me that I was wrong. And yet, why should my employee have the same say as me???
Their main priorities they would all include the following; a roof over their head, employment, good education and healthcare, efficient public services, affordable energy and reasonable taxation.
You get all that provided to you as a child or in prison. I do not want a Nanny Government telling me what to do for my own good. I do not want Big Brother telling me I must celebrate diversity, and I must reduce my carbon footprint while they jet off to exotic locales and dine on the finest delicacies while railing the climate is being destroyed by my air conditioner. Robert is just another Nanny, but maybe he will only control 1/2 or 3/4 of my life, not all of it.
Priorities? How about Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness? How about Freedom?
How about Government getting out of housing, providing jobs, schooling, healthcare, and energy? Has Government done anything but screw these up?
NHS? Obamacare?
Section 8? The Estates/Housing Projects?
Schools where half the kids don’t graduate, and those that do know nothing?
Berkeley Free Speech?
How about those Ontario Hydro rates?
“You can’t drill your way out of high oil prices!”
The real problems are career politicians and a stupid electorate. The first could be cured by the imposition of term limits – if anyone knows what to do about the second, please let me know.
Get rid of universal suffrage and go back to the days when you had to be a net contributor to society to be allowed to vote would be a start.
Proportional representation where you get 1 vote for every $5000 personal income and consumption tax paid. Income from the public trough doesn’t count.
@ Jamie, I agree about the career politicians. Too many now graduate with some degree in economics and politics and go straight into a party structure and end up as MPs with zero experience of real life. I am more conecerned about stupid politicians and stupid media reporters than I am about the electorate.
Are our political systems broken, or are they simply being horribly abused and undermined by the delusional and corrupt?
I learned a long time ago that you will never truly appreciate the great things in life unless you suffer your share of the bad things too.
Far too many big-city liberals with no real concept of hardship or sacrifice also have ZERO concept of the fragility, rarity or value of the great freedoms many of our ancestors gave their blood for.
Sigh.
I’d go one step further…anybody who is in the employ of any level of government with the exception of those in the military cannot vote.
Funny how all the geniuses who want to fix the system want to take away some rights and to give others. Perhaps the system of government that has slowly evolved since 1066 works just fine.
Hear, hear!
“Priorities? How about Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness? How about Freedom?”
This is what most of the electorate wants and works at daily. The amount of time that it takes the average family to achieve this to some level precludes more active participation in the political process and when they see that career politicians are more concerned with power and ideology than advancing the above aims of the electorate they tune out and stay home on election day. Further, the electorate sees the media as biased and in ideological partnership with the politicos and is further alienated. Add to this that some of the electorate that pays attention to what is going on knows that the upper level entrenched bureaucracy is part of the power structure and works to perpetuate the ideology that sustains them. All of this leads to people becoming disengaged, as they think ‘why should I bother voting, it makes no difference’.
In the US in the last election enough of the electorate finally became engaged enough to elect an outsider with life knowledge as POTUS and now watches as all the Deep State coalition of media, bureaucracy and political parties (even the party that should be supporting the candidate) trying to destroy the duly elected president. The fact that almost all of the educational system and media has been totally taken over by one radical ideology, as warned about by Yuri Bezmenov, the ex-KGB operative, aggravates this in the extreme. Again, people think, why bother, nothing I can say or do to stop this.
Local small rural and urban municipal councils still work for the taxpayer. The larger urban municipal have become nothing ideological battlegrounds with the left generally being in control as they offer free lunches and circuses rather than “Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness”. The provincial or state governments are worse and at the national level the only concern is ideological.
Jamie and Canadian Observer make excellent points.
The concept of banning parties might – or might not – be laudable, but it is unworkable. Birds of a feather flock together.
If by some miracle a legal ban on official parties was enacted, within a fortnight there would be a group of ‘independent’ MPs wearing blue ties in one corner, another wearing red ties in another corner and so forth. And while there might not be an official party structure, one could be sure that they would ‘unofficially’ recognize an honourable member as their spokesman, vote essentially the same way on critical measures and so forth.
I think what is needed is to bring somehow restore the rights of MPs which have been so steadily eroded over the years – by all parties. No whipped votes, no caucus solidarity, just vote your conscience to represent the wishes of your constituents.
I know, I know. But I have this dream…
The UK and Canadian political systems are not broken, they are, in fact, functioning exactly as intended.
yes scar, hitler and Nazis worked real well. I bet if I told you that government employees don’t effectively pay taxes, nor do any company employees , were the companies sole income is from government contracts, that these people have a vested interest to vote for their own $$$$$, and therefore do not deserve to have votes that carry the same “weight” as an actual tax payer, you would try and bullshit me that I was wrong. And yet, why should my employee have the same say as me???