COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY ANDREA WHITTAM SMITH IN THE
INDEPENDENT
The one thing we have
learned from the last two years is that our politicians are simply not up to
the job
Displaying contempt
for voters is the very opposite of rising to the level of events – but that is
what Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have done, just like their predecessors
This is just another cheap shot at Corbyn.
What the author has to say about May or Cameron is correct.
They are not up to the job.
Cameron was an insipid, smug, dishonest man.
May puts on a pleasant face to do very unpleasant things.
Corbyn is an honest and thoughtful man. I don't know whether
he will be successful, but neither does this propaganda-oriented writer.
He has been attacked almost every day of his brief
leadership at the behest of the very special interests piloting the Mays and
Camerons of this world.
Wretched Tony Blair is the titular leader of the special
interests, and barely a week goes by in which the corporate press does not
promote and publicize him and his devoted acolytes.
What it really comes down to is political parties being
bought-and-sold to special interests.
The basic structure of politics in Britain is corrupt and
rather anti-democratic.
Just as is the case in France and overwhelmingly so in the
United States.
In many ways, it is as though the entire Western history
since the French Revolution has been expunged. We do not have democratic
government. Cameron misruled with about 35% of the people's support, and he
promoted special interests everyday of his term of office.
