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Kath, I best come clean and say that it was "Party Politics" that I don't do.
It is the saddest fact that the very personal relationship we each should have with Politics in a democracy has been killed and pickled and put on show to be viewed from the Left or from the Right only.
Even the occasional public information advert sounds hollow in the face of the tribal bickering that Politics in the UK has been reduced to.
Nevertheless!!!!!!!!
Politics IS you and me and next to nothing to do with those who enjoy and employ it as a mere play-thing. Frankly for too long the mass of the population has let this go by and carry on.
At one time I would amuse myself by boasting, in company, that my brother and I knew absolutely everything there was to know about everything and that we could answer any and all questions.
From time to time a 'disbeliever' would attempt to test the statement by asking a question and although I knew the answer I would, just to extract the amusement out of the game, say that I did not know the answer...but that this particular question was one my brother had the answer to.
Now, hopefully, you can see the ridiculous nature of this merry-wheeze and realise that we each and all could make the same boastful statement;the most erudite and the most ignorant of us.
And yet Party Politics in the UK is run along these same lines. Parliament, in effect, makes this self same boast. The twist is that each Party will tell us that it is they who have the answer and all we need do is elect them to power and we will see the truth of their boast. "Yea right!"
And yet, no matter the question it IS you and me that in the end will have to come up with the solution to any and all problems. We (the people) are the answer, the one and only answer.
"Politics IS people, are you politics?"
