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  Is it the role of government to run the country? Or is their role to set the framework(s), rules etc by which we operate? Or possibly a sensible middle ground between these two extremes? Pressure groups, those with vested interests etc. will always attempt to influence policy and rules so that they are favourable to them, that only means they are exercising their influence.
  Perhaps decoupling the more obvious of these self interest groups from political parties by moving to state funding might change our perspective on who is actually doing what and who they are beholden to.
  
  Talent costs what is costs, it is for the respective employers, remuneration committees, shareholders (where applicable) to assess whether they are getting value for money. This applies irrespective of whether it is local authorities, national government, state agencies, or the private or voluntary/charity sector.
  
  None of the media are unbiased but the mainstream media has a statutory obligation to provide balance and equal access; failure to do so can result in censure and law suites. Social media on the other hand is almost entirely unregulated with all the horrors that that allows. Couple that with the gullibility of too many social media users...
  
  As for each parties agenda, we should know that once they publish their manifestos. What we we will never truly know is the agenda of parties within parties; whether that is the ERG or Momentum or any of the other strange cabals that certain of our politicians seem to join from time to time.

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