Politics and the state of the world today

I would like British military forces to be withdrawn from Iraq immediately.
The premise of weapons of mass destruction on which they were sent was at best fabrication, at worst a lie.
Their presence along with US forces has resulted, both directly and indirectly, in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
This not only has cost us a vast amount of money but has also severely damaged our international reputation.
It is a shameful irony that the political system we are forcing other countries to adopt (namely democracy) cannot deliver the wishes of a clear majority of individuals in this country (namely troop withdrawal).
PLEASE COPY THE ABOVE & E-MAIL TO YOUR MP.

Politicians are as subject to what the law says about anything as anyone. To change the way something is done usually requires a change in the law.This is the awkward bit. Trouble is when they change a law they usually make a right pigs ear of it. Changing the law also means they have to "come off the fence." And a politician would rather sell his mother than have to do this. The one thing that politicians "don't do" is take responsibility for anything they "engineer." They are gutless and having gutless people run the country leads to a total lack of imagination about how best to change things because if it doesn't work they deny responsibility, or lie their heads off saying things like immigration was reducing when it was increasing. They would rather just like to make a BIG DEAL of something that is totally unimportant, like who gets honoured or Home Information Packs or having a protest exclusion zone round parliament.

My Gripe is the Government (what ever the party). They have fought against Communism for years but they are more communist than the communists. We aren't allowed to live our lives without them dictating. We can't drink, smoke or eat certain foods. We are all going to die whether we do all these evils or not. Oh and not forgetting that car you can't drive. Why don't they mind their own business. The priority being is to get rid of all the holier than thou goody goodies who are ruining this once Great nation. If ALL the owners of ALL the businesses totally ignored the smoking ban there would be nothing the government could do. Remember the Council Tax? Come on Britain lets start fighting back and tell the government to LEAVE US ALONE.

Political smear campaigns. Seems politicians are so devoid of positive things to brag about with their own careers, they have to focus on smearing the other candidates. Last I remember it was, "... one Nation under God, indivisible ..." Why, then, do we have democrats and republicans "fighting" to be the majority??

Why even bother with the campaigns, since most people who are adamant about voting support their political party whether their party-specific candidate is the best one for the job or not? Isn't it a shame those who would like to pick the best candidate - whichever party they represent - have to pick "the lesser of the evils"?

Ask a politician is that black or white and you may get a YES or NO ? ask if we went to war over weapons of mass destruction ? and he or she will write a book. Is it to much to ask for a straight YES OR NO , after all we voted for them to give us the truth about our decisions in this DEMOCRACY. What we did not vote for was silly blank smiles, and daft body language.

All politicians are crooks. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Most politicians have never lifted a spade in their life. Thet would not know how to dig their own grave, when the time comes. Nonetheless, they are satisfied they never ever had to work hard.

Graft is the name of the game - everywhere.

Perhaps this keeps the peace, somehow.

GrimReaper It's our political system that allows us to make comments like we do on here without getting thrown in jail. Try the same sort of thing as this in China,North Korea,and other parts of the world and you would be treated as a criminal just for dissenting.
At least we have the right to tell our politicians what we think of their policies and vote against them without fear of arrest

Attila,
If they had been crushed by Voters , Fine... but they were not, they were crushed by the other parties... thus making a mockery of our political system.

Grim, was it not a good thing the BNP and Kilroy-Silk were crushed last time around? Whatever your leanings, you must acknowledge that without 'open democratic free society' they wouldn't have been allowed to stand for election in the first place. It seems the support just wasn't there for them.

I agree, the world is slipping into decline, and as for "BOB", you cannot change fixed elections, or change much when all the parties are alike.
Its ok saying put yourself forward to make the changes, but 1 voice is very quiet, those in control know this and when a party does get big enough to be heard ( Kilroy Silk - or BNP ), they get crushed, so much for an open democratic free society.

Its dog eat dog. And the way we are going, the Bible will be right... the meek shall inherit the earth.

If you don't like it , change it.Politicians and their parties are voted in(and out) by us.They are open to persuasion especially around election times and you can even stand for parliament yourself if so inclined.