Thread: ...He said what?

I have noticed a tendancy over the last ten to fifteen years for governments everywhere to become more meddling and dictatorial. I've also noticed a shift away from entering politics to serve ones country, and towards entering politics to line ones pockets and power grab.

Certainly our last government was pretty controlling. We have microchips in our bins, an explosion of CCTV cameras and a very strong political "thought police" agenda. A classic example of that was Gordon Brown being caught, live on TV in the election run up, calling a woman who questioned Labours immigration policy a bigot. Its not bigoted to question a policy thats allowing Lord knows who to enter our country without even the bare minimum of checks, its common sense. I, and most others, are not anti-immigration, but we are against uncontrolled immigration. And all three main political parties have been fiddling their expenses with the best of them, so none are above reproach there. But, I digress.

I dont think this problem is solely happening in the US. I think there has been an explosion in the state and in state control in both Europe and the US over the last decade. And I agree, the worst thing is that we're letting it happen and I dont see a clear way out of it.

Frankly, most of the main political parties are interchangable, so theres no real alternative other than some of the fringe parties, but most of them are focussed on one or two issues (UKIP for example) or are just not viable choices. So that leaves starting ones own party, joining the other fringe parties and trying to take on the big guns without much funding.

Stubear for Government!

Its an interesting topic, thats for sure, and I'm interested to see what happens over the next few years. Especially with our new Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government.