Depressed Blue wrote:At least someone there will actually care about Wales for once.
Who exactly? Every person in Parliament cares one person and that person is them. The country needs one of two things:
a) an external revolution which would cause mayhem and people would then take the holier than thou approach and side with the establishment because of course, that's easier than standing up for what you believe in.
or:
b) an internal revolution whereby a party enters the system purely with the intention of gaining power and then doing its best to rip the system to shreds leaving it in a dire state of affairs - the likelihood of this is unlikely to because people think their vote matters and that they are voting for change. The public in the majority are easily led and the politicians know that they can manipulate things no end to achieve what they wish.
Cue the 'omg you're a conspiracy nut' comments now from the uneducated that are so daft they align with the viewpoints of a particular party rather than learning to think for themselves, analyse what is actually out there and coming to their own conclusions. In the simplest terms, the people are only getting what they deserve and people who vote have no right to complain when they put these people into a position power again every election.
Whether the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Labour, UKIP or Greens get into power doesn't matter. They'll all do the minimalist of things to appease the electorate whilst catering to the every demand of the economic elite that keep them in that position of power. Who is paying for the financial crisis? Austerity is only hitting the poor and when I say poor I mean working and middle class. SME's are being forced to close up, the working class pushed onto zero contract hours yet they'll continuously tell you more people are in work even if the time in work is limited.
As much as he is a prat, Russell Brand is right. He is also right that standing as a politician is pointless because once he becomes an MP and he cant bring about change that will then be used against him in terms of a character assassination to destroy any credibility his argument had.