murky21 wrote:'Governments' or the UK government specifically aren't so bad.
In case people didn't notice, running a country is pretty hard.
The PM is not evil. He is largely similar to most people in many ways. They make decisions based on a ridiculous amount of variables that the majority of us have no idea about.
We are lucky as fuck to have things the way we do in the UK, some people are just too angry/ pessimistic/ cynical to realise it.
I think its a bit over the top when people go round saying Cameron's a tnuc and disagree with him just on the basis that they don't like his face etc, but yknow to say he's largely similar to most people and then to say "they make decisions based on a ridiculous amount of variables that the majority of us have no idea about" is a bit daft. He is just like us, therefore his decisions can be criticised and his motives can be seen through just as easily as anyone else's and he is pretty fallible and not that clever. His policy initiatives seem completely random and not thought through and his and George Osbourne's economic policy is seemingly based on ideology they learnt growing up than on the actual facts.
Tbh it takes a certain type of person to become Prime Minister or even an MP these days, and the general feeling one gets is that these men (and women) are driven by personal ambition rather than the will to help the people of the country, and tbh some of the policies seem to be based around helping their mates at the expense of the minority, in an entirely cynical way- so its not really a surprise when people get angry or react in a cynical way themselves.
(You are right though, we are lucky to live in a country such as this- but things can always be improved and its only by questioning the status quo, not just accepting it that things move on/ don't revert back to the past)