Why do we need a Government?
We need to change everything, not just the party in power!!
This is a picture. It is what it promises to be. A picture.
We know because we are intelligent (ha,ha) beings that if we see an Island or two that there is obviously going to be water around it and possibly boats, sea birds and possibly people swimming or fishing. A simple black and white photograph which can lead you to imagine and believe so many different things, just by looking!
No matter which of the political parties you follow and/or trust, you see and hear what they are saying and because there is no ambiguity in the wording, you believe. Let me therefore ask you a question?
"A young guy, mid-late teens, walks towards you on a busy retail street. It is obvious by his dirty shabby clothing and the fact he is slurring his words, he has either been taking drugs, drinking alcohol ecessively or both. The fact he looks terribly under nourished and just beaten - when asking you for some small change for a coffee, not wanting anything to do with him or his life choices, you just snub him and walk away"
then,
From the same age group a young very smartly dressed man in a suit and tie, very well spoken approches you with the same request as he is very well presented, clean and tidy and polite, most importantly with no signs of any substance abuse, do you give in taking pity and pass him a couple of pounds, afterall he has just hit a bad moment in life?
The point being we judge with our eyes first, hearing secondly and facts finally. Shouldn't facts, as the saying goes, speak louder than words?
We know our governing parties are run and paid for by billionaires with absolutely no shred of common sense or dignity, let alone empathy. As long as the Chataeu Petrus is room temperature and being served in a crystal glass the fact that it cost £100,000 a bottle is not in any way important. Our leaders no matter the political viewpoint have no idea how we, the everyday working and struggling people live. The expensive house they live in is adourned with all the latest gimmicks, the electric Tesla they drive is probably an advertising stunt by the musk man himself. the education that they and their own kids have or are having costs more than the average house we live in and pay 25 years for. There is no realistic, factual and useful reason for any of these people to be running our country.
Who then?
I think our leaders should be people who we vote in for the bloody hard work they have done. For the blunt nature in which they speak the truth about our countries finances, hospitals, education and jobs. Someone who can speak about sensitive subjects like imigration without making it racist. I feel many of our current nutters in control just want to cause an almighty uproar/war/mass brawl or worse between different races and religions.
Money is the begining and the end of everything for our political leaders. Today we have had all of the fuss about the Deputy Prime Minister and her wrongful way of buying a new property resulting in her position becoming too uncomfortable leading to her resignation. A £800,000 house/flat, how many of her constituants could have afforded it?
Again money is more important than honest and transparent politics. We have to start looking at parties like Reform, like the Liberals or any of the other "Almost" parties and see who is leading them for the right reasons. Mr.Farage appears to say the correct thing but we need to find out exactly what his true intentions are.
Join me in wanting a new breed of political leaders, leaders with integrity and most importantly - not a bank account that could feed many others for many years.
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David Aleman
I am a tired, middle aged man. Artistic and sporty but broken and bruised.
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