Justin Urquhart Stewart weekly update – Ignorant Politicians Leading To Stupid Policies

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IGNORANT POLITICIANS LEADING TO STUPID POLICIES – Read the full article here!

Oh dear! We have another 6 months of this political nonsense in the build up to the election. Now please don’t get me wrong, I think this is going to be a fascinating campaign, election and result, and no one can really call the likely winners at this stage. It seems more like the old fashioned game of Diplomacy with all the competing groups impacting on each other’s ability to garner votes, whether it is the SNP taking chunks out of Labour, the Liberals hanging onto their core territories, the Tories fending off UKIP, or Labour all professing the mantra of undying loyalty to their less than convincing leader. This leaves UKIP as the untrained, untamed mustang whose bucking and kicking make the entire event even more unpredictable.

The result of all of this is that we seem to be bereft of much in the way of sound reasoned political debate in any area apart from the excellent political programmes hosted by Andrew Neil. The rest sadly reduces us to sound bites and populist pleadings. From the NHS, to defence and the economy there seems to be little in the way of considered argument on these important subjects, but rather the picking up of obviously emotional issues which will attract media coverage.

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