Electorate could tell political elite how to run the country

From: SE Acaster, Sheffield

A RECENT casual conversation with a post office clerk concerning the prospects of hefty, if not actually increased, utility bills as winter approaches made me think again about the massive gaps in wealth levels and attitudes in this country.

The woman was absolutely right – many of us will once again worry about our energy bills to the point of not switching on the power.

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De-regulation has simply put health and lives in jeopardy to benefit profits and shareholders. The Government’s solution is to say “well, keep swapping providers, we’ve made it easier for you”.

Does that include the same elderly and vulnerable people who will be shivering into illness, if not their deaths, and have no access to a computer, let alone the knowledge of how to operate one? That is a disgrace, David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has recently asserted that benefit cheats will be prosecuted vigorously. As a departmental head soon to leave the post, perhaps highlighting the lamentable state of his ailing organisation, and its causes, might have been of more use and earned him a little more respect.

Interestingly, he made no mention of pursuing public figures for their many mis-dealings with our money – like the hordes of BBC executives who have clearly being paying each other off to a disgraceful and almost unfathomable degree using licence fee revenue.

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Meanwhile, the paying/viewing public gets another kick in the ribs by having to watch interminable repeats or cheaply-produced rubbish because there’s then nothing left for investment in the network.

Oh, and if you don’t get a licence you will certainly be prosecuted for that!

I’m detecting a mentality, if not positive policy, by this apology of a government to subdue anything or anybody which gets in the way of its own levels of society doing what they wish – and it being paid for by the proletariat.

The essentially honest, certainly hard-working, heavily taxed majority live, or have lived, 
real lives and haven’t spent their years being cossetted through public school, to ready-made jobs in the City before slithering into politics and parliament.

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Many of the electorate could tell the politicians and other senior figures a few things about running a country.

Come on, Messrs Cameron and Clegg, the “no ties and rolled up sleeves” don’t fool anybody – you all inhabit the same mire and you and your ilk should be heartily ashamed.

Do we really have to 
resort to parties harbouring anachronistic, boorish 
crackpots to see necessary change? Remember 1930s Germany...