why do we trust politicians to know whats best for us?

Question

most polticians come from stabble and rich backgrounds they dont know what really goes on in the real world . should we have new rules for them before they can stand for elections ? like let them live on a council estate for one year or let them work in a minimum wage job for one year.then let them stand for election. let them see how the majority of the live before they make disitions for us.

Answer 1

i think it would be great for them to expreince how we live

Answer 2

the term "all politicians are liars" is commonly heard in developing countries, and compared to places like the US, they REALLY have cause to complain. problem is come election time, the optimist majority of the population think "this time it'll be different", "this time theres an honest one",this one will do something for us" etc. and vote for the snob crooked politicians- again.
its what u get when people believe someone else will fix their problems, and just never seem to learn.
most politicians don't really live on the planet earth the rest of us live in, and don't care anyway. they're just power hungry liars with a legal right to lie. did u know that in British parliament they can say any lie and u have no right to do anything about it? and thats in one of the better countries.
i don't vote in any election coz theres no one worth voting for. if i have to cast a vote, it'll be about choosing the lesser idiot.
we gotta have some kind of control system that they have no say in. rules won't do when they make the rules.
minimum wage is not enough, they make money off other ways.
Dosent c's got it right. they should not be trusted, period.

Answer 3

The fact is that we do not trust politicians. They are one of the least liked groups of people and probably come somewhere on the scale several points lower than estate agents and double dealing lawyers.

Only a couple of days ago a group of Tory MPs in the House of Commons demanded a pay rise of 66%. Gordon Brown has refused and so he should, considering workers in the public sector are restricted to a pay rise of about 3%.

Now you know why I do not and never will ever trust a politician. They have safeguarded their own pensions while at the same time throwing the people's pensions to the wolves and destroyed our savings and investments.

All politicians without exception are total self seeking bastards, greedy money grubbers, back stabbers and thieves of the people's money. They spend our tax money in the most profligate manner possible and swan off on annual jamborees and booze-ups at our expense without so much as a by your leave dear elector.

VOTE NO!

Answer 4

I lost my trust in most politicians a long time ago. Whoever's in seems to make no difference, just a different colour tie (or skirt as the case may be). I'm waiting for the first animal rights party due to be officially opened sometime spring next year (they're molding themselves on the successful dutch animal party who now have two mps in gov.) as a complete alternative to everything else. Maybe then, just then, other politicians will start thinking of the electorate instead of only themselves.

Answer 5

The Government decide what is best for us because the majority of people vote them in to power. Whether they really know what the real world is like is debatable. Members of Parliament (MP's) come from all backgrounds, but it seems that it takes a more prospersous background to make it in to positions of power. The only real answer is for people from "normal" backgrounds to work towards the positions of power. But, you know what they say: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Who can tell whether "normal" people will not lose their way once they have any power to make a difference?

Answer 6

Because we're all mugs. They can seem to get away with litering the roads with useless and unnecessary speed cameras, putting 'red tape' around everything, patronising the minorities, charging us stupid tax all over the shop and then having the cheek to waste it on badly-managed computer projects, and their own saleries and perks, but do we seem to say anything about it? Not really...

Mind you though, I doubt it'd be much different under Cameron's 'caring, sharing' tories, and I would rather drink a pint of bleech than see the Lib Dems in charge.

Answer 7

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't trust the politicians to make decisions for me. They make decisions based on how it will improve their life, not yours and mine. I think it would be awesome to have a politician working a minimum wage job. Even if it was for a month. I guarantee the minimum wage would go up.

Answer 8

What's a stabble? What's a disitions? I wish you'd made the decision to listen at school, then you wouldn't be in this mess.

Answer 9

politicians are like robots, they have nothing to say about how an american lives but through their platform... We trust them as leaders to know what platform to talk about during a time of crisis...It doesn't help that most of them are wealthy old men who only care about themselves and people like them in the long run

Answer 10

Because we, the electorate, are fools. Have you ever wondered why we need so many MP's? More than 600 in total. Have you ever wondered how much these buffoons cost us? More than £100m per annum.
Do you realise that those who decide your taxes and duties are paid more than 5 times national average?

Answer 11

you know you could possibly have some thing there,I like the idea though the reality of the matter is that they are all an I mean all megalomaniacs in waiting and the lure of power that drives them blinds them from the ideals that put them there in the first place.