Blame the Tools not the Workers

It seems apparent to me that all but the most opinionated & distasteful meddlers have lost faith in politicians in one way or another.  I doubt a single day goes by where most people don't encounter, what they would consider, another political mistake, scandal or down right fuck up.  Parliament is full of the finest "good intentions bad in practise" morons you could ever hope to see and everybody knows it, yet we still turn out at the polls year after year and encourage these idiots!

People have constantly complained about politicians for as long as I can remember, regardless of individual political views, so why do we put up with them?  I honestly don't know, each election we seem to expect change, sweeping reforms or a new breed of "political competence" to heal our countries wounds, yet every time we are duped into voting for yet another muppet.  If you kept receiving dodgy merchandise from a production line you might be inclined, rightly so, to take a look at the machinery and fix the problem at its source, it's an oddity and a shame that we don't apply this simple common sense approach to our political system.

There is clearly something rotten at the core of Westminister, something preventing the quality from breaking through, or perhaps filtering the tripe to the top I'm not quite sure, either way when you have a such a prolonged run of shoddy, spineless & incompetent politicians we surely have to start blaming the system itself.  Personally I would say abolish the lot, any absolute position of power, be it elected or otherwise, will yield poor results compared with the collective intelligence and compromise of individual co-operation, but that's another topic in itself.  Perhaps we need to look again at delegated legislation, requirements to stand as a MP, party politics, open primaries and contractual manifestos, there's a whole host of relatively simple tweaks that could improve the current shambles.

And no, AV is not a decent solution, if anything it exacerbates the problem, it's just a piecemeal bribe offered by our masters in an attempt to quell our lust for real political reform.  The problem is not how we vote for them, but rather who makes up the cesspool we are voting from.