People should be more angry with politicians

[Unix]

Every decision can be voted on electronically at 9pm every evening over the web by the public. Instant pure democracy, the government becomes an bunch of administrators with no parties, but we get to vote to sack individual government administrators.

[speling bee]

Every decision can be voted on electronically at 9pm every evening over the web by the public. Instant pure democracy, the government becomes an bunch of administrators with no parties, but we get to vote to sack individual government administrators.

Who proposes the issues to be decided?

[Unix]

Who proposes the issues to be decided?

Me.

:nazi:

[xoggoth]

Didn't see it but if people are seriously denying that immigration has anything to do with the housing shortage they must be truly demented, even by lefty standards.

[vetran]

Didn't see it but if people are seriously denying that immigration has anything to do with the housing shortage they must be truly demented, even by lefty standards.

It was Alan Johnson, he does try to be convincing, I thought Peter Hitchens was having a stroke when he listened to Johnson accusing him of racism and when he told Hitchens that he was wrong that 400,000 new people had to live somewhere.

[speling bee]

Didn't see it but if people are seriously denying that immigration has anything to do with the housing shortage they must be truly demented, even by lefty standards.

Immigration has something to do with the housing shortage, as do lots of other factors.

IMO the biggest problem is planning. 2.27% of England (not UK) is built on. Build more houses.

BBC News - The great myth of urban Britain

[BrilloPad]

Didn't see it but if people are seriously denying that immigration has anything to do with the housing shortage they must be truly demented, even by lefty standards.

People still argue about AGW.

And immigration is only part of it. People see houses as a way to make money. There needs to be an end to tax releief on mortgage for BTL, tax on second homes and an even bigger tax on anyone without a UK passport.

[d000hg]

Bullsh**t. What they say and what they mean are worlds apart. They may well kid themselves that they are doing what they do for the benefit of others and on certain levels this is probably true. However once they have the power of influence and the attention of the electorate they become their natural selves boosted by the sense of importance they gain. This then embodies itself in satisfying their own prejudices, issues and attitudes. The caring for others is then exposed as the pretence it always was.

What rot. This again is just you assuming everyone else is like you. Luckily, since you're a selfish cynical git, this isn't the case. Good people do exist, no matter how alien that concept is to you.

I refer to the current batch (90's onwards) of career politicians. You may have seen me bemoan here before about the lack of even a single statesman (or person) in British politics.

What age range would that be? I certainly know people in their twenties and early thirties in or aspiring to politics... or "para-politics" like action groups and social causes, etc.

Fundamentally, people like you lot who don't believe good people exist are as much of the problem as those you're complaining about.

[vetran]

Yes. It is right to criticise FGM and it is not racist to do so.

HTH

Good, but of course until Casualty featured it then it WAS racist to discuss FGM.

How about a policy of hiring only a particular ethnic group in a company?
Or suggesting certain races commit more of certain types of crime?
Or certain groups of people avoid tax and trespass on land?
Or certain cultures avoid the planning rules more than others?

[SueEllen]

Good, but of course until Casualty featured it then it WAS racist to discuss FGM.

Absolute nonsense.

I read about it in Company magazine - a womens' mag - when I was about 13.

It was banned in England in 1985