At the risk of opening up a whole new can of worms, my personal opinion is that most politicians have no clue as to what the general population would like / need as long as they have power. As far as I can tell, it seems that power is all they care about and all they crave (much as I crave for nicotine). Politicians, both here in the UK, and in the US are full of promises before they get their office and then, instead of fulfilling the promises they made, find some excuse as to why it would be impossible to carry out what they actually promised due to lack of funds / lack of support from their own peers / lack of interest or lack of time. The politicians are supposed to be OUR mouthpiece, nothing more, nothing less. If the US government actually listened to their own citizens they would hear nearly 300 million people screaming at them to get their house in order so they can govern the country properly. In the UK, it's worse, scream as we might, 60 million voices aren't heard for what we actually WANT. They pussy foot around being all politically correct, trying not to upset minority groups (and I'm not being racist, ageist, religionist or anything else-ist here, it's important you understand that point) but, if you want to live and work in the UK (or the US for that matter), we have our own existing culture, way of life and standards. Stop your whining, get on with life at least to our standards and (after firing all of the politicians and getting real people in power), listen to what the people want (Right to Bear Arms anyone?), and we wonder why the world is in such as mess! It's because we, the ordinary man in the street, let the politicians run our countries as a nanny state and interfere with every other country regardless of if they want us to or not. What a mess!
There, I feel better for that...
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