Listening to Sir Keir Starmer on the radio and television this morning has left me wondering what is the point of politicians.
Year after year, leader after leader, election after election, political figures emerge from their comfortable homes and offices to promise voters the world. Better education, more jobs, better healthcare, better welfare provision, better policing, better air quality, greater 'diversity', 'equality' and 'opportunity' (whatever any of that means), better housing; you name it, they'll promise it. In truth it's the same nonsense every time and none of it is ever delivered.
What we get is higher taxes, more surveillance, poorer education, more street crime and drug dealing, roads with more pot holes than tarmac, millions waiting to see a doctor or get necessary treatment, worse public transport, less and less freedom of speech and action, more and more immigration and far less integration, more warehousing and industrial units despoiling our countryside, more lorries clogging up our roads and ever-increasing congestion, more and more rules and regulations to control our lives.
This is not characteristic of any one party but is a phenomenon common to all. The headlines are always the promises, designed to win our votes and put whichever mob it is into the most powerful offices in the land. The downsides, if they're ever spoken of, are dressed up in impenetrable gobbledegook or hidden under mountains of promised 'extra cash' which never actually materialises. The 'drip drip' approach of the assorted encroachments on our quality of life, freedoms and general wellbeing goes on unabated until, suddenly, our village has become an industrial town, our park a vast warehouse and our wallets are empty.
Starmer is an oily weasel, but so are the other high profile politicians. All have only one thing in mind and that is to gain, or retain, power for themselves. Not one of them gives two figs for the common people whom they just see as cash cows, there to be sucked dry to satisfy whatever is the latest whim, fad or fancy.
Come Thursday 6th May, I will vote but only in an effort to keep the worst of these parasites out, not because I trust any of them or really want my life controlled by any of them. That said, I certainly won't be voting for any 'Police and Crime Commissioner', a job created by politicians, for politicians and with no purpose whatsoever other than to politicize law and order.
I believe it was the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham (aka Quintin Hogg) who said that we did not really have a democracy in this country, it was an elective dictatorship. Every few years we, the common people, are given the chance to vote for whichever party we want to dominate us for the next few years; the choice is usually very limited and it makes little difference which lot wins.
While on the surface, things might seem better at times, underneath, the country slides inevitably downhill and will continue to do so until either we get some real leadership and a return to what are now seen as old fashioned values, or there is a revolution. I won't be holding my breath to see which it is.
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