A few small changes to our political system could make all the difference

MARCH will see a general election. It won’t make tuppence worth of a difference as the government will get in anyway.

It’s difficult to believe that the well entrenched culture of self-interest, sleaze and cronyism will change one iota with the colour of the rosettes or that a new broom won’t be tainted with the same sordid moral perversion attached to its bristles.

There seems to be a belief among politicians that when we elect members then he\she become sort of demigods who then are free to institute their own codes of behaviour, their own brand of morality and their own remuneration.

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