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In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.
George Eliot - Middlemarch (1871-72)
Again and again it is made glaringly obvious to us that the political game attracts the wrong kind of people.
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What is really worrying is that we are not talking about one individual in this imperfect world but a line up of people who would struggle for a living behind the cheese counter at Sainsbury's, how is it a political party can assemble the likes of the above and actually believe that one of them could run the country, I fear for our future if the public actually vote for these cretins.
Maybe we should try government by sortition. Legislators are chosen by lot, as juries are, and have to serve for a fixed period. There was a party advocating this standing in Cambridge when we lived there. I voted for them because all the others were substandard.
A great old chum and I discussed this some years ago.
Over a pint, he just said that 'Government should go out to tender, that way the real complexities of running a country would be recognised'!
Can't really argue with that!
Wiggia - yes it isn't easy to be optimistic about that lot. They come across as puppets and maybe that is all they could ever be.
Sam - I think that is a good idea. We certainly need to find a way to get rid of career politicians who have never done anything else.
Scrobs - much more could go out to tender, although the public sector doesn't appear to be good at managing major contracts.
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