Democracy
I'm having great trouble coming to terms with the idea of democracy. I blame this Internet, as it has increased my expectations beyond those of my great-grandparents, who were no doubt delighted when they were given the vote (men in 1890ish, women in 1921).Today I want more than the chance to vote for a member of Parliament once every five years, especially when the MP for my area holds opposing views to my own. That's not democracy, that autocracy by another name.
Our Prime Minister took us to Iraq, where we needlessly killed people, and destroyed their infrastructure. The majority of folk in England would not, would NOT have voted for that invasion. It wasn't a war, there was nobody willing to fight. There were other ways to remove a despot.
Now English ratepayers will pay for those misjudgements, for years to come. At the same time we have charities that support hospices, air ambulances and any number of supportive charities doing jobs that (perhaps) we as a people would rather were financed by, or from, government.
On the other hand perhaps we should all be left to get on with it on our own. Over half of our earnt incomes are now spent by our governments. By people over who I have no effective control.
posted by Suffolk Notes @ 9:25 am
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