"was full of party political ranting from current, former and prospective parliamentary and council candidates. Don't these foolish people realise how exaperating ordinary people find their silly party games."
This is a view that politicians should start taking notice of, it is not an isolated view and not isolated to the UK
This weeks Mid-Terms in the USA showed how people, fed-up with establishment politcians, shook up the Republican Party. Whatever the somewhat extreme views of the US Tea Party the demonstrated that a group of ordinary citizens can take on the establishment, whilst not all of their candidates were successful they were candidates put in place of establishment choices.
In the case of Florida it was the Tea-Party Candidate who won the Senate Primary ahead of the Republican former Governor - Charlie Crist - who ran as an independent but still fell behind the Tea Party backed candidate.
Our politicians in the UK need to draw some lessons from this is they want to retain any form of trust from the electorate.
Politicians, whether National or Local, need to remember they are elected by the people to represent those people. Politicians are sent to Parliament or the Council Chamber to represent the citizens of that constituency, district or ward.
These elected representatives are not voted in to represent their party, nor to represent the union or big business that bank rolls them or their party, they are there only to represent, and do their best for, the people.
As a nation we are entering a tough few years, there will be pressures on employment, we are facing a drop in income with the upcoming tax hikes and our public services will diminish. It is at times like this that the people need to trust those it has elected to represent them, trust that they are working to help and support the people ahead of choosing party politics first. Those who are chosen to represent the people must be visible in that representation and show that they put the people ahead of their party ideology and ahead of their disagreements with the other political parties.
Politicians need to forget the silly party games and refocus on their job of representing the people.
If party politics continues to be more important to politicians than their job of speaking for the people the UK could have its own grass roots rebellion.
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