I fully agree but I also feel that people should be able to vote on the matters that are affecting them. No party seems to be able to voice my own opinions. If the majority of the voters want something then it should happen.
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I fully agree but I also feel that people should be able to vote on the matters that are affecting them. No party seems to be able to voice my own opinions. If the majority of the voters want something then it should happen.
I think that if the majority of people want something and no political party will do it, you're supposed to start your own. Get people in every region to stand for your party on your values. If enough people really support it, you should get into government.
Actually of all the politicians I have met they fall into roughly 3 equal camps
- Those that just want to be in charge
- Those interested in politics in and of itself
- those that passionately believe in something
Unfortunately it's always the dirty lying ones that make all the noise and get all the attention.
Like the first two, a lot. Third one would be too easily made to sound like it was coming from someone you don't like though. I love the idea but it's been said by so many liars in the past it just reads blah blah more usual lies blah blah to me now!
Thats what inspired this thread. I really believe that a brand new political party could win an election if they pressed the right buttons. I appreciate that there is more to running a country than just the headline issues but surely we need some radical new policies in to get people voting.
Unfortunately, I think that's exactly what semi-pro waster's third point was.
Laws shouldn't be passed just because something has been in the media recently and people want to be seen to be doing something about it.
Look at America: the PATRIOT act is a perfect example.
Oh noes, terrorists!
To save you from the evils of terrorism, we have to pass new laws
Save us!
Excellent. Goodbye freedom, hello totalitarianism.
Look in the Speaker's Corner for the thread on Sarah's Law - something that seems reasonable, especially because of what inspired it, but how easily it could be misused, if not by the current government then by the next one.
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Thank you. Like I say they are just off the top of my head and fall into the category of soundbite politics, it is all too easy to promise but without any substance to back it up. However since I'm not aiming for political power or asking you to vote for me it isn't such a big issue perhaps.
As a prime example of kneejerk politics in the third one I was thinking of the fox hunting ban, I'm against fox hunting in general as unnecessarily cruel but it shouldn't have been all that hard to prove it. If it can't be proven then the law probably shouldn't be passed.
Also the hypocrisy of targeting something perceived by most people as a "rich person's" sport, rather than going after other things equally cruel to animals such as fishing (can't ban fishing, think of the votes they'd lose!)
The point I was trying to make but I dont think I got it across was more that I want to vote but all the two main parties are so similar there is no change in the way the country is run. Politicians seem relutant for whatever reason to offer radical changes that I would welcome.
Try living somewhere that always votes for one or the other. Whatever I vote, Conservative will win. My vote is worthless
This is why a new party is needed to "mix it up"...
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you wouldn't happen to be a student or recent student, would you ?
mais oui.