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03-09-2019, 09:45 AM
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Why are our Politicians crap

Jeremy Paxman presented on Channel 5 last night. Made some tongue in cheek comments about halving HOC but increasing their salary. Must have suitable employment to be eligible as MP and moving them from Westminster to Wolverhampton!


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03-09-2019, 10:28 AM
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They're all crap. And they all put you in it. Just a question of depth really.
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03-09-2019, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by keezoy ->
They're all crap. And they all put you in it. Just a question of depth really.
S*** happens, we'll just have to flow with it.
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03-09-2019, 12:01 PM
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I doubt trhey are any worse than any other pollies round the world though your first past the post voting is crap. I can't understand why they want to stay at the Palace of Westminster it would make far more sense to build a new parliament far out of London and keep the old Parliament as a tourist attraction.

My brother complains that Britain has far too many pollies in Westminster but I just looked it up and you have 650 which is about 10MPs per million people isn't it?. That is one per 100000 or about the same as us. Then you have all the unelected Hooray Henries in the House of Lords.

The number of Australian pollies is determined by a a rather strange quota system to ensure that the lower house members are about twice as many as the number of senators so the population is divided by twice the number of senators (76) . This quota is then divided into the population of each state to determine the number of members each state is entitled to (except Tasmania as the smallest state is guaranteed a minimum of 5 by the Constitution). All the electorates must have the same number of voters which leads to some ginormous electorates ie the majority of WA is one electorate.

I think that is right though I am going by memory and some detail might be wrong.
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03-09-2019, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce ->
I doubt trhey are any worse than any other pollies round the world though your first past the post voting is crap. I can't understand why they want to stay at the Palace of Westminster it would make far more sense to build a new parliament far out of London and keep the old Parliament as a tourist attraction.

My brother complains that Britain has far too many pollies in Westminster but I just looked it up and you have 650 which is about 10MPs per million people isn't it?. That is one per 100000 or about the same as us. Then you have all the unelected Hooray Henries in the House of Lords.

The number of Australian pollies is determined by a a rather strange quota system to ensure that the lower house members are about twice as many as the number of senators so the population is divided by twice the number of senators (76) . This quota is then divided into the population of each state to determine the number of members each state is entitled to (except Tasmania as the smallest state is guaranteed a minimum of 5 by the Constitution). All the electorates must have the same number of voters which leads to some ginormous electorates ie the majority of WA is one electorate.

I think that is right though I am going by memory and some detail might be wrong.
We have the biggest government in the world (and the biggest wastes of space)
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03-09-2019, 12:35 PM
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The problem started IMO when we had people attracted to the job because of the money who are career politicians, they don't have principles and dreams for the country they just do whatever keeps them in a job. This has ended us up where we are today with politicians actively working with EU against the people.
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03-09-2019, 01:11 PM
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They're all crap because they are only in it for themselves. They have no intention of doing what they are paid to do which is looking after the general public.
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03-09-2019, 01:19 PM
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I'm just wondering if we might get a better characters if we paid them less and made them do only one job. If they had to live on NMW we would at least get people who were there who knew what it was to try and live in this country on what they laughing call enough. It might concentrate their minds and they might find it possible to fight for real people instead of the big businesses and unions.
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03-09-2019, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962 ->
I'm just wondering if we might get a better characters if we paid them less and made them do only one job. If they had to live on NMW we would at least get people who were there who knew what it was to try and live in this country on what they laughing call enough. It might concentrate their minds and they might find it possible to fight for real people instead of the big businesses and unions.
That's an idea, Julie, but if we pay people peanuts we get monkeys. And we already have monkeys.

Maybe we should have adapted our working procedures like they do in Cuba. A doctor is paid the same as a cabbage picker....but maybe not.
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03-09-2019, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Floydy ->
That's an idea, Julie, but if we pay people peanuts we get monkeys. And we already have monkeys.

Maybe we should have adapted our working procedures like they do in Cuba. A doctor is paid the same as a cabbage picker....but maybe not.
Could work Floydy! Cuban doctors have a good reputation
world wide, they export them everywhere!!

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