Does anyone think UK politics is getting silly? Dumbed down? No big ideas just compromise? Not very intellectual? etc. I just always get the impression that all parties just want to do what they think we want them to do. Has Tony Blair improved politics in this country or not?
2006-12-26 05:03:11 · 18 answers · asked by Dr Watson (UK) 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Going into parliament - the House of Commons - most new MPs have idealism firmly pinned to their breasts. Their innocence is destroyed by the system in a few weeks when the whips demand they vote for a government bill of which they may not approve or be in support of....and so it goes. In time, those new MPs just fill the back benches and become party cannon fodder - doing the will of the gov whips. Everyone wants a gov job - a ministry - so obeying the whips is one way of ensuring that eventually they get the job plus the big salary plus the big cars plus the grace and favour house. Would we be any different?
2006-12-26 05:48:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Politics and politicians are all the same whichever country they happen to be in. We don't hear anything startlingly original from any of them, because the world seems to lack great leaders at the moment. I wouldn't go along with your idea that all parties just want to do what they think we want them to do, although they may pay lip service to this idea by making promises they never keep (and that are probably impossible to keep!). Tony Blair - just pretty average I would say, has probably done the best he can but, as I've said, no great leaders around and who's going to replace him?!
2006-12-26 13:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by uknative 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well lets put it this way..... the politics in Britain are slowly starting to becoming more like those in America... in other words pretty rubbish and not focusing on the real issues in society or trying to change those issues. The more our political system becomes Americanised the more our country will become like America and the less things we will have paid for by the government.... the NHS will become privatised and we will all suffer for it. None of the parties really do what the public want them to. They are too focused on trying to get in power another time and so do their best to keep some voters happy, by not changing taxs and things like that. Its funny how the politicians changed to students having to pay to go to university when they in the first place got their degrees via the government that was in power when they were young paying for them to get Educated.
2006-12-26 13:16:31 · answer #3 · answered by wiccanfairiekitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Tory Liar is just an ultra conservative masquerading as a labour politician as are 99.999 % of the so called labour party. All politicians are the same they are only in the job for one thing the money just look at that joke John Prescott, he performs no useful purpose and yet gets paid a vast amount of money and yet people are surprised when he will not resign he is not going to give up that money without a fight. Then of course their if BuffHoon who says he wants people to respect politicians, that is a joke this is a man who has no idea of the real world and yet wants respect I dont think so.
2006-12-26 13:17:26 · answer #4 · answered by Stephen P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tony Blair has not improved politics in this country
2006-12-26 13:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by SteveT 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Blair does what Blair wants to do. What the voters want is irrelevant. Steel fist crackdown on crime - forget it. Stop immigration - no way, Jose.
Conservatives? Their 'leader' (another limp-wristed, wittering fop ) believes that the huge, burning question on all our lips is...................the environment.
Liberals? Don't even go there.
I'm beginning to hope that 10 million eastern europeans will come here next year. No, 20 million. I also hope that they all claim DSS and run riot in the streets. Then Blair's vision will have been taken to its logical conclusion.
2006-12-26 13:49:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The madness continues.
We are back to a surreal "Alice in Wonderland" scenario where words can mean anything you want them to mean.
George Orwell guessed some of this in his book "1984", but there is also an element of "Animal Farm" where they all have their snouts in the in the trough fed by taxpayers.
Blair even has a lifetime ban from entering the Church of the Nativity as a war criminal.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061217&articleId=4179
2006-12-26 17:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by Nothing to say? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Politicians are human.
They are not always as they ought to be.
If you feel that about your MP write to him or her....but give concrete suggestions as to what you would like to see.
Tony Blair has certainly not improved politics....the membership of his party has halved during his tenure of office because they feel that they are ignored by tghe hierarchy
2006-12-26 15:01:41 · answer #8 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this about the current UK government or politicians generally? In my experience they're no better or worse than in any other representative democracy.
2006-12-26 16:48:23 · answer #9 · answered by mickyrisk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you guys over there notice that all the leaders look like they buy their suits from the same place, like they are told where to shop by the same persons.
no
2006-12-26 14:29:22 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋