I started sending myself insane last night reading a few of the petitions being put up to the new Government Epetitions website. There are some very strange people putting these up there, for example this one includes the phrase "Jeremy Kyle does it, why can't we." Does anyone want anything to do with this? If you do start running now. I'm sure someone could start a petition saying George Osbourne should sit an Economics A-Level and get 100,000 signatures, doesn't mean that should be passed as a law, or debated in parliament. At least one of the others demands a referendum be called for everything. Not practical, not realistic, and just bloody stupid.
There's been a fair bit of comment about the governments holidays last few days, ignoring the people calling for them to return, or some of them anyway due to riots and the financial issues, there have been other comments asking why do we need politicians, Civil servants run the country anyway, polticians are a waste of money, lets ignore them. The problem with this would be when you want something changed, the civil service will keep things ticking over and run on the same lines, but nothing would change. And this would be a problem, at least some of the time. Looking at the petitions people put up apparently in all seriousness you couldn't run referendums for every decision, aside from the cost issues, as who would decide what would be asked? And god knows what would result anyway.
We might want better politicians than the ones we have, on all sides, we might not like what they decide, but they're better than the alternatives. And we can always vote them out eventually, we can't sack the public.
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