The sensation that politicians, even politics itself, are a waste of time, is as widely reported as it is experienced. The explanation put forward most often is a nebulous ' disillusionment'.
Nonsense. Political boundaries on the ground and political categories of policy and action have been decoupled from administrative, expenditure, and statistics-gathering categories, under New Labour's' 'managed democracy'.
We vote for local representatives - They grid the United Kingdom with need/homogeneity/relations-to-central-plans-expenditure sectors. Our elected representatives and the electorate to whom they respond match none of this gridding and can do only their limited best to liaise with like others who are trying also to cope with unresponsive central administration physical and policy agendas.
Power lies where the money goes, and our money goes where the central government's gridding decides; our electoral and democratic power collapses.
The Conservative party has published a list of those grid areas where more than 50% of the inhabitants survive solely on tax-funded benefit payments; not the parishes, local or even metropolitan council areas, the grid sectors.
Which Superoutput Area do you live in?
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If only we were ALL swing voters in swing seats. Failing that, let's have the Alternative Vote (or Single Transferable Vote as I used to know it). And, of course, national sovereignty so that we're not just voting for a box or rubber stamps.
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