I think if we have learned nothing over the last couple of decades.. we have perhaps discovered that the issue many assumed was just another wild conspiracy, is, yet again, blatantly true. That being... politicians are nothing but entirely owned front men/women, putting a face on the mechanics of the real power.
These people are installed, often with limited talent other than being able to obfuscate and deflect questions. If we actually made potential political representatives sit an exam on history, sociology, the financial system and international affairs, I think we would get a shock as to how dim many of them actually are.
In regards to Labour.. (the other mob are not worth attempting to save) It's only a few decades ago for instance that Labour politicians would enter front line politics via intensive, hands on, training provided by the unions. Weekend courses on all things politics. Great leaders and oratory skills came from that system. Compare and contrast to now, where 90% of Labour members of parliament come via the modern route of a politics degree at Oxford, an informal vetting process while there to see where their ultimate loyalties lie and which organisations or countries would never be questioned, the later sometimes nailed down by paid for trips. Then they miraculously get adviser jobs in Parliament before a few years of sitting around the commons cafeteria, literally waiting for the death of incumbent MPs like vultures on the savanah and IF they've said the right stuff.. they get an opportunity. When they do get in, because of the ownership model, they get instructed in what to say, do and how to respond. The are all dullards and completely see through but the media system (who are owned by the same people) ignore the fact and gaslight us into acceptance of these chumps!
The system is ENTIRELY corrupted. Our representatives are not representing us. The primary job of Polanski should he get in would be to sweep the system away. Up MPs wages, remove any 2nd jobs, spurious funding, remove the corporate lobby system, rid ourselves of the neo classical economics model, bring in a system of direct instruction to MPs via mini referendum. A vote in the house comes up, the various constituencies are balloted on how they would like their representative to vote and that ballot is published before the vote is cast. We have tried for decades to accept the "we know better" or 'we are privy to secret info" model of representation... It's failed...catastrophically!!
Time for an entirely new system. Get rid of Parliament in London, move it around the nation, perhaps if MPs see more people living in bus stops or attempt to drive to the neighbouring city of Sheffield from Manchester, driving over a 12th century mountain pass, then perhaps more would get done. I would also instigate weekly drugs and alcohol tests like many in work get. And I would regularly check on who they are meeting with.
Nothing will change in this nation if Einsteins description of madness
