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Originally Posted by Damien
I personally don't think people's cynicism should be indulged.
You say politicians are the cause of our problems which is clearly untrue. They can fail to tackle a problem or indeed cause some problems but that is to be expected. They are human and we all make mistakes, difference is ours are not amplified nationwide and then picked up by an entire population who claim it was an obvious mistake and they would have fixed it.
Part of the problem seems to be that everyone thinks governing a country is easy and anyone could do it. Therefore they treat all politicians as dumb vermin.
So if we get rid of politicians then who else should run the country? Or was that just a populist parroted line without much thought about it?
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Some of the distrust of politicians (leaving aside the expenses for once) could well be down to the party system. Where individuals get subsumed by political dogma and ambition excludes changing sides. Mostly seen when a determined journalist tries to pin them down & the MP sticks to the party line with a sour face. Possibly also why maverick independents like Martin Bell have been elected and bucked the party system.