Insulated Political Elitism
Today, as the leaders of the Conservtive and Labour parties, meet to discuss ways of stealing our taxes, Dr North at Eureferendum comments on the Hannan article in the Telegraph. Truth be told all the political parties are clamouring to jump on the bandwagon and demand that we the taxpayer support them, why would they not, for them its is free money, that will have the affect of freeing the central parties from their roots and entrenching political elitism and a them and us system.
"To rely on the constituencies and their funding means getting in touch with your grass roots, asking what people think, listening to them and then acting on what they say. In other words, the political classes have to respond to their own local parties, instead of running their own agendas.
And it is this that the central office control freaks find so difficult to do. For them who want to dictate rather then respond, such reliance is an anathema. It is much easier, therefore, to tap up a few rich men and corporate sources, to enable them to run their own campaigns, sucking up to the Westminster media village (who are just as out of touch as the politicos) and laying down the law to the locals.
Combine that with the inherent and almost insufferable arrogance of that group of people collectively known as "Tory boys", who labour (if I can use that word) under the impression that they have any value to society at all, and who insulate themselves so successfully from the real world that they feel the need to talk only to themselves, and you have a self-referential society that has lost the art of listening and responding.
Thus, although we can take it from Hannan that state funding would widen the gap between government and governed, the real problem is that that gap already exists – it has already been created by the party machines and the current funding crisis is a symptom rather than a cause of the problem."
Technorati Tags: State funding of political parties, british-mps, career-politicians, membership-of-political-parties
Link to This Page If you found this page useful, consider linking to it.
Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site (Ctrl+C to copy)
It will look like this: Insulated Political Elitism
Leave a Reply