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'The problem', and therefore the solution, is the citizen. [although the title 'citizen' in the UK is an honorary one it is useful short-hand to denote those of us with the voting-franchise, and the potential so to be]
For a Democracy to begin to function, homage must be paid to the intrinsic bottom-up nature that underlies it.
This is not the case in the UK, it is not the case even with the few who post here.
While we are, each and all, content to worry and fret over 'them', day-in and day-out for five years or so, and perhaps spend an hour every five years or so in wrestling with a supposed choice before making our mark little or nothing (mostly nothing) will change, and certainly not change for the greater good.
We live in a loveless marriage, do jobs we don't like, eat the same old stuff every Thursday. In short;live the life of the tethered goat, why shouldn't we do politics in that same cosy fashion?
BUT!
If we were to accept the simple truth that Politics IS People, and that by 'people' we mean 'I', and not allow ourselves to be re-drugged into thinking that Voting is all about what the BBC infomercials say it is: [you will have to come up with these particulars yourself, for I have long ago given-up watching - the price of this or that, regulation both local & national etc.because, plainly, such is Tommy-rot.] Rather than demanding more from 'them' and never getting it, we should demand a little from ourselves and from our neighbours. Attend to the wishes and desires of our own communities and demand that Government do likewise.
This is not as hard as it may appear, for IF there was a sustained up-take of the voting-franchise;a steady increase in voter-registration attended by a expression of clear intent to actually go out and vote, no seat would be safe, not one.
