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Do you see how similar to each other the political parties are in Westminster? Its evident when you watch debates in the House of Commons. All they can throw at each other are words, and those words are invariably carrying the same message… ‘What we have achieved is marginally better than you did/will do. ‘ So, neither party wishes to change things radically – just a tweak here and a saving there; so that they can claim to be making a difference, when in fact they’re not.
And why is it called the House of Commons when practically all its (Right Honorable) members came from somewhat privileged backgrounds? Which of them is not the product of further education (even Private education!) and who among them is in the least bit common? It’s hardly representative of the people, when not one of them will have struggled for months/years on welfare, or the minimum wage, lived in poor housing stock, or even live in a downtrodden neighborhood.
And now we hear that the current Government has allegedly done what everyone suspected they were doing all along when they privatized Royal Mail. They sold it cheap so that the investors would make a killing. Seven hundred per cent increase on investment. So, how many of these investors who are benefiting from that particular windfall are ‘common people’ in low paid jobs or unemployed, from poor housing stock or deprived areas? Can I hear you guess ‘none’?
And, I ask you, why is it that our Politicians turn a blind eye to the atrocities being carried out in Turkey by the Erdogan regime, when they cry “FOUL” to Putin’s Russia? Could it simply be that Turkey is a NATO member whilst Russia is not?
If this election does nothing else, it should demonstrate how the ‘Tories’ persist in their belief that misinformation repeatedly drip fed through the media will eventually become true. Ergo “the Labour Party propped up by SNP ” when clearly this will never be the case, and no-one ever stops and says ‘but surely the Conservatives will win!’ Perhaps they believe their own spin?
Now there is hope at last. Jeremy Corbyn, if he is elected leader of Labour could bring politics back into the spotlight especially with the younger generation. Let’s see what happens.