15-11-12, 03:15 PM
(15-11-12, 01:14 PM)MarchRide link Wrote: If you don't like the way the country is run then go and vote. It amazes me how many people moan about the government, local councils etc when they haven't done anything about it.
Our political system runs on the basis of Buggin's Turn. We get Party A until they get too arrogant and people get fed up with them, then we get Party B until the same thing happens.
We really get sod-all say in what happens in Government and our electoral system simply gives whoever is in power the opportunity to say "We have a mandate to do X, Y and Z because those were in our manifesto and people voted for it" which is BS because you can't say "Well I like X, but not Y and Z, however the other Party's options are worse.