Can anyone explain why, in such a high tech society, I can only choose to vote for who I feel will do the best job on one or two issues. Then after the election I find I have voted in a whole raft of items known laughingly as “The Manifesto”. Why can’t we vote on each of these items individually or at least vote as to whether we want them in the manifesto at all? I believe this is the major reasont that politics is held in such low esteem by the general public. It is not politics that is out of favour but party politics causes all of the problems. There is a rising level of social consciounsess and as a society we are failing to respond to the needs of our citizens. The reason is simple and that is because our political system is still based firmly in the 18th Century. We caould do no worse if we became a Monarchy. At least someone would be able to make some decisions that can help society at least keep up with the social trends. Party politics should be the next thing under the microscope.

My next post will cover the outdated, expensive and totally unfair “Income Tax” system that was only introduced in the 1890s as a temporary measure to fund the Boer War. But I think I’llhave to find another blog for that one because I believe this blog is just about Government IT Issues, and I wouldn’t want to take away from that.

Andy Galloway