Death of Politics : Jack Bureau

It is clear to most people that the political institutions of the world do a very poor job of managing  both our daily lives and  the nations’ relationships with one another. In blunt terms Governments are failing to manage most aspects of that for which they are elected to manage. Here in Britain, or in the USA, France, Israel  or Palestine, Spain or anywhere else we hear only of less rather than more competence and less rather than more honesty, transparency, integrity.

We have grown so accustomed to this failure that it now seems normal. We give ourselves the weak excuse that things are better than they used to be, that  British Government  today is better than the governments of most other nations,  that  now we all have the vote and that we may change Governments if we so wish. But we know from experience that the next lot we vote in appears to be just as corrupt as the last lot. Under present systems serious change appears impossible.

This state of affairs is little helped by the fact that those who are specialists in political theory and practice almost universally declare that we should not be in a hurry to change our political practices and institutions for fear that change is likely to lead to worse government and less democracy. Even those who have over the years called for serious reform have always ended up by recommending improvement through marginal tinkering: modifications to House of Commons timekeeping, the creation of new committees with little power and no serious abilities to make changes, recommendations to decentralise power by reproducing new but equally incompetent governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, recommending changes to voting systems to encourage a better representation of the electorate.

There is a curious unwillingness to look the problem squarely in the face and state that the core problem appears to be the third rate quality of the participants in the Houses of Parliament. Everybody admits that they profoundly distrust all politicians, and nobody appears to consider that we should apply some quality control system to improve the situation.

This website is dedicated to recommending a real – if bloodless- revolution. Death of  Politics looks at the problems very squarely in the face. It recommends radical solutions to a destructive and continuing problem.