91Èȱ¬

if the guardian class forgot about sticks to hit each other with and did their job of guardianship would there be any fears about the election? if the guardianship had been good would we have had runs on banks? no savings? massive debt? and still a mess in things like nhs dentists?

Why design policy not for the benefit of the country but to make others look 'bad'. one marvels at the self indulgence of it all.

I guess the only silver lining in this very grey cloud is that we might at last see an intelligent debate about the fundamental changes we need to consider to our bloated local and central government institutions.

Brown made a huge mistake in injecting massive funds into an unreformed health service with the entirely predictable outcome of marginal productivity improvements, despite billions of investment. We need to transform, then invest, not invest, then transform. This picture is replicated across numerous governmental bodies with endemic waste, over -resourcing, uclear accountabilities and poorly designed processes.

GAMES POLITICIANS PLAY

Well posted bookhimdano.

Eric Berne gave the world Games People Play. It is how the immature masses get through their miserable lives.

Britain needs MANAGEMENT of a high calibre. In Westminster and No. 10, we get games in which we are pawns.

MPs must be put on the spot, locally, over an abstention box on the voting slip. With Parliament discredited, the voters should have the chance to register NO CONFIDENCE.

dear bbc
couldnt agree more with comment 3 of other option on ballot paper...call it the protest vote whatever!.
Most voters are disillusioned with the daily games being played out by media and politicians to score points.
We the public want and demand is
"action"... it speaks better than "words"
The media gives us the body language
of our leaders and their interaction with
the camera....we can listen to their arguments....but at the end of it all it is what action they take that will address our
frustrations and their inability to act.
Self indulgence breathes contempt and it
can easily be identified by astute observation of our politicians on camera.
Technology is there to make life easier for us the voters to decide what is right from wrong...we are looking from the outside
and not in mirrors...as per Michael Jackson
famous song.
off my soapbox now
regards
LOUDinternationalist

The majority of MPs say little and vote the way they are told; certainly many pay little attention to the views of their constituents. In the absence of more independent thought and action we can manage with fewer. We certainly don't need 640+. Cut them by half (to start with). Think of all those bath plugs we will not have to pay for.

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In Britain it is the spin doctors, the speculators and the hacks who are now considered to be the main experts on the economy. They were the ones that saluted Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor and they are now pretending that, as Prime Minister, he knows what he is doing. Even though he is playing nasty games with the economy and trying hard to appease the money men at a huge price for everyone else.

JM

Tories 5 # Labour 0

Well said JamesAven.

The greatest myth that ever came out of Scotland was not the Loch Ness Monster but that Gordon Brown was fiscally competent and economically adept.

G20 was only a success if you believe Gordon Brown's spin that a trillion dollar package was agreed.

Speak with your 91Èȱ¬ economics colleague Stephanie Flanders to learn that the package was only about a tenth of what was claimed.

HAVE A CARE WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT GORDON (#11)

He has the troops behind him - almost daily! He made a monkey of himself on YouTube so - OFF THE THE TROOPS - for a photo op. There's leadership; Shiney Boy Dave will struggle to top that (but you can bet he will).