Your PM is not running the country, but a taxi

Good idea or just a stunt, Norwegian PM goes undercover to get voters views.
At least he is trying something new.

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From what I have seen recently of Norway, its people and its Royalty, love everything about it .....

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Not according to the opinion polls Pats, they obviously want his party out.
Having said that I put the article on because, I thought you wouldn't get any of our clowns doing that, they are all out of touch with the people!

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Undercover or not it wouldn't be safe for ours to do that, idiot people would make it too dangerous for them to even try it.

But isn't this what they have advisers for ? people who do know what is happening to tell them what people think of them etc ?

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Dont know much about the politics there - just like what I have seen so far ....

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I agree Julie, but can you trust advisers, after Blair was advised that Saddam had chemical weapons.
If I was PM I would not trust anybody, people all about you out to discredit you in someway.

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Was that advisers though or intelligence services ?


it cannot be beyond the capabilities of the PM's to find people who can tell him what he needs to know surely, although I guess in this country finding two factions who agree would be hard. We seem to have those for and against benefits, those for and against sending aid abroad, those for and against just about anything. Who should he listen to ?

This is the problem with our political system it is so viciously one against another, no consensus is ever reached on anything.

Instead of doing what is right fort he country we get sucked into what is right for one side or the other or what will get the PM re-elected most easily.

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Well I like the fact that he didn't feel he was 'too grand and important' to drive a taxi and agreeing to do that, showed he cares about the opinions of the man in the street - maybe he doesn't trust his advisers to give him the full story! Good on him!

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So very true - it's all about getting into power and staying there rather than what is good for Britain and its people. It's probably that behaviour (playing tit-for-tat rather than doing what everyone else knows needs doing but point scoring seems more important to them) that puts people off voting or even being interested anymore.

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What would be better IMO is make sure all politicians are drawn from all areas of life, make them have a job for a few years before being elected and perhaps make politics part time so they carry on working alongside their constituents everyday. At the moment we have a lot of career politicians who must be re-elected as they have no job to return to or any skills to offer a real life job ! What do they know of the problems we all face ?