End Party Politics

The human race is a race with a million specialities, but one of the things it does best is accept the status quo, when questioning it, and possibly changing it could be beneficial for the race itself and the individual.

One of the best places to see this unquestioning acceptance is in post-Thatcher Britain where all the trade unions are dead and only about 2 or 3 people turn out to vote. Maybe when things are going good, people don't like to try changing things. One thing you will notice though is the complete absence of any movement wanting to pull down the system of Party Politics.

What's the point in having 646 members of parliament if they can all be divided into three main political parties? You might as well have three people sat in there making the decisions of 60 million people. Not only should party politics be abandoned, it should be made illegal in the same way that big companies are fined for colluding and turning things in their favour. If every MP was his or her own person and was only answerable to his or her own opinions our parliament would be truly democratic and the general public would feel much more positive and less apathetic towards politics today.

Party politics may have been effective and necessary in the past but now we need a more humanistic and representative approach. However for the status quo to, in essence, commit suicide there would have to be some sort of a revolution, but considering how everyone is so apathetic, that will never happen. How do you get people who don't care about politics anymore to dismantle the system that is causing them not to care.

Every MP should only be answerable to himself and his or her constituency which they have earned and not been given by their party. There should be healthy competition between MPs and not between parties. If MPs spent less time trying to please their parties and their whips and more time trying to please us, maybe we would have more interest in them.