What's wrong with our politicans

[emmie]

Nadine Dorries goes on a reality show, she would be better off staying put in the House of Commons, that's reality enough surely. Cameron looks increasingly marginalised, and out of step, as to Clegg what on earth is he doing these days. There is not one of them that has any gravitas, or common sense. Come the next election i am thinking of voting for the monster raving loony party, not sure they still exist but if so my x is for them.

[emmie]

i cannot abide watching or listening to Ed Milliband, or come to think of it that pit bull next to him Ed Balls.

[dave50]

Problem is they're all career politicians these days with no experience of the world outside, Straight from uni into politics.

[Bazile]

Lets have your manifesto

[ichkeria]

Is this a serious question?
How is voting for the Monster Raving Loony Party - regardless of any other perfectly valid reason one might have for doing so - going to strike a blow for "gravitas" or "common sense" (!)

I actually quite admire Nadine Dorries. God knows why: she's a Tory and I don't want the programme she was on, but some of the criticism seems a little po-faced.

[Arksided]

well said Em10. we all had a wasted vote very little point bothering next time as they tend to do as they chose anyway. but Iwill ...if MRLP is still about... they're getting X

[emmie]

ok my manifesto.

1 immigration stops now, borders closed till we have an
accurate head count. The census is flawed. After that we only let in people who have enough money to live on, and a job to go to, and no benefits to anyone for five years. If you haven't contributed then why should you get anything off the state.

2 all aid contributions to overseas countries stops.
3 Leave the EU, we won't die believe me
4 kick out all foreign criminals, terror suspects irrespective of whether they have family ties, or cat/dog whichever comes first.
5 No politician of any hue will have second/third/fourth jobs, concentrate on the constituents, they pay your wages.
6 Politicians to get a decent salary, out of that they pay all their own
expenses.
7 No more following US into wars we cannot support, afford, either through monetary contributions or bodies on the ground.
8 BBC licence to be scrapped and the DG to be appointed outside of the BBC
9. serious crime like rape, murder will be mandatory 30 year sentences
no parole.
10 keep Answer Bank it's as Stephen Fry would say Quite Interesting.
More if you like but it's a start

as to the current crop, that's the problem, most of them have never held a job, had to actually work for a living, and when their day is done in politics will take up endless directorships on board of multinationals and live the life of Riley.

[ichkeria]

Sounds like Veritas is the party for you then.

www.veritasparty.com/

The political party who aren't really a political party because they know, like you and me, that real politicians are nasty people.

Veritas cuts the crap.
Veritas speaks to You :-)

[emmie]

these people, Veritas means truth doesn't it?

http://www.veritasparty.com/

[flump1]

Yay, I vote for Em.

[Arksided]

I agree with a great deal of your manifesto. such a shame most of them will never see fruition. you get my X and I'm by nature a humanitarian.

[emmie]

i think that politics is for the birds, it's full of ne'er do well's and jack the lads and lasses, corrupt, pointless in most respect, and many i am sure we could do without. Bring in her Majesty to dispense justice, Prince Philip will be her guard and backup, Anne to sort out the Military, Charles the environment and one or two others for the rest of the minutiae

[tt6688]

if brains were a disease,we now seem to have the healthiest group of leaders in the history of our nation.

[emmie]

or as the glorious Dorothy Parker said, if brains were gunpowder, you wouldn't have enough to blow your hat off.

[sp1814]

em10

Here's an idea...rather than paying over the odds for MPs, why not cap their salaries at the national average wage, with an additional payment for 'London weighting'.

That way, the only people who would stand for election would be those who are committed to representing their constituency, and not feathering their nests.

No-one goes into nursing, the services or social work for the dosh...they choose those careers because they actually care and have a conviction.

[sp1814]

Dur...when I say 'conviction' I mean 'a calling', not a criminal record.

[Arksided]

Com'on Clegg or Cameron wouldn't understand that. at least when Reagan run the US we had a laugh thinking what a Muppet... oh dear look at what's happened here.

[ichkeria]

Do people go into politics for the money?
Maybe in safe seats, where it could be regarded as a secure, if not fantastically well-paid job, perhaps
In corrupt political systems (with lots of "safe seats") people are attracted by politics as they can see the power and influence they may wield as potential sources of income through bribery.
We're keen enough on the political system here, it would seem, to jealously want to keep our right to vote for all these dreadful people away from people in prison (!)

[emmie]

sp, that made me laugh or not about who goes into nursing, have you visited a hospital, care home lately, they are for the most part abysmal, depressing places, where numbers count. You go in, get treated, shoved out, still not well oh too bad, go back to hospital. Costs the NHS twice as much because they didn't fix the problem in the first place.
If i hadn't witnessed the uncaring of horrible treatment of myself, relatives, friends in these places i wouldn't comment.

[anotheoldgit]

It is nonsense to think our politicians are any worse than they were in the 18th century. :0)

[emmie]

Reagan wasn't as stupid as you might think, as to what we have now, not a lot of sense between any of them, and the sooner Clegg resigns or whatever he intends doing with his life the better.
It has nothing at all to do with what school they went to either, Eton or other, if they had a jot of real humanity, and thought of Britain before everything else at least until some of the real problems are resolved, then we wouldn't be in half the mess we are.