Corrupt Government ~ Time to change

Recent revelations about corruption in British politics vividly demonstrate some of the flaws in democracy and politics. Power vested in a few is dangerous, because people are easily corrupted.
The best form of government is by many experts with real world experience, each with very limited power and tenure. That form of government will make better decisions and avoid corruption.
Democracy is outmoded, a relic from the tribal past where the big man ruled. We know better now. We need expert government.
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Corrupt Politicians

I am going to spoil my ballot paper in the coming general election.
I am going to write on it “Thieves”.
I wish that many other people would also do this, and then I would like the BBC and all the other media to have the courage to explain this to the world, so that everyone in the world knows how shabby our politicians are.
With great power comes great responsibility, and that requires strength of character, and honour.
Clearly, our politicians are massively lacking in both.
They awarded themselves huge salary rises, and fabulous pensions, but that was not enough, they needed an open chequebook, to take as much as they wanted.
So they created a law to allow themselves to steal from the British people, their own almost unrestricted expense account.
The big money grab going on by our politicians is not recent or limited to the current incompetent party, politicians from all parties do it, none is worthy of power.
Any decent politician would come forward and tell the world what was going on.
I am ashamed of the quality of the people we now have running our country.
There was a time this country valued character and honour, but now it is all gone.
I hope this is the final embarrassment for a country that once had the greatest empire in all of history.
I consider myself insignificant and very far from perfect, but even I would not associate with any of them if they wanted my time; they are a disgrace to this nation.
As much as I am keen to see the back of the current less than useless government, I have no confidence that the next ‘corruption’ of politicians will be any better.
Therefore, rather than endorse any of them I would sooner say no to all of them, and I want the world to know it.
At first I thought not voting was good enough, but that is too feeble, I need to make a stronger statement.
The honest hard-working people of this country need to send a clear message to these self-serving crooks.
I am also very disappointed in our monarch. Presented with a chance for once in her reign to stand up and do something strong for this nation, she seems not to care enough. Why does she not dismiss them all and take back the money these thieves stole from us? She would be so right to do so, and applauded for doing it. She could engage a new government, not composed of politicians, but of honest people, experts in their field, working together for the benefit of the nation over themselves.
A new start.

Icarus Economy

I distinctly remember Gordon Brown not so long ago implying he should receive plaudits for a successful UK economy. I also remember thinking that he did not do all the work, we did, the best one can say for him is that he did not get in the way too much.

Now it seems the economy is going pear shaped, will he be as quick to seek the responsibility for that? Perhaps there are problems even his mighty skills could not quell. Then again, perhaps it was just a combination of good fortune and our application that allowed the UK to prosper.

If we flew too high fuelled on hubris, we would do well to remember who was the designer of our wings.

Home ownership increases unemployment

The BoE MPC member Professor Danny Blanchflower points out that owning homes makes for a less mobile workforce and therefore tends to increase unemployment. Sounds plausible. So the implication is we make people more mobile by promoting home rental. Unfortunately people like to own their homes, so we could make business more mobile. It seems to me there was some promise to encourage businesses to move to the provinces quite some time ago by Tony Blair. It appears there was insufficient action on that one. I think some guaranteed periods of low and gradually increasing corporation tax combined with relocation advice might be a nice carrot. Perhaps a gradually increasing corporate tax rate for the highest density areas of business would provide a good stick.