Wrong focus #
Posted Thursday 18th October 2007 18:19 GMT
Ah yes, the old "full and informed public debate" ploy.
What is needed (in Britain and here in the US) is a "full and informed public debate" on how to make our elected representatives actually.............er, represent us.
In the UK, I don't recall ever voting for someone who pledged to tax me until working for a living became an unattractive option. I don't recall voting for someone who pledged to take determination of my country's future out of my hands and place it in the tender care of a Eurocrat. I also don't recall voting for someone who pledged not to follow our own country's interests but to squander those to curry favour with the United States.
In my mind, a system for more accountable representatives would involve holding the representative's family hostage, public stocks, large and angry unemployed men and repeated canings to the soles of the feet - or the absence of all of those, in the unlikely event that my 'representative' didn't morph into a pocket Pinochet as soon as he/she got on the train for London or Edinburgh.


