Let's suppose that you are a supporter of a football team. You attend, spending a lot of money, your team's matches in the FA Cup. Your team reaches the final. Interest in the final is intense. Then you are informed that the final will be played behind closed doors and only the players, club officials, the FA hierarchy and a few selected supporters' club members will be let in to the ground.
How would you view that prospect? With outrage or resignation?
Translate the above into the current political farce. You have paid your taxes, been through the election campaign, voted and seen the election results. Yet now you are being kept in the dark as the final steps are being taken to form a government. The only people involved in the discussions are the senior politicians, the civil service hierarchy and a few officers of the political parties. How do you feel about this? Are you outraged or resigned to the position?
Reading press reports it is noticeable that party activists are emphasising they should be consulted. But no concern for the view of the poor bloody infantry, the electorate.
Should PR become the voting system then the electorate will be pushed to one side. The political parties work out what is in their own best interests first with the interests of the electorate a very poor second.
How would you view that prospect? With outrage or resignation?
Translate the above into the current political farce. You have paid your taxes, been through the election campaign, voted and seen the election results. Yet now you are being kept in the dark as the final steps are being taken to form a government. The only people involved in the discussions are the senior politicians, the civil service hierarchy and a few officers of the political parties. How do you feel about this? Are you outraged or resigned to the position?
Reading press reports it is noticeable that party activists are emphasising they should be consulted. But no concern for the view of the poor bloody infantry, the electorate.
Should PR become the voting system then the electorate will be pushed to one side. The political parties work out what is in their own best interests first with the interests of the electorate a very poor second.
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