We have a strange kind of democracy in this country, and for this post, ‘country’ means Britain!

It may look ‘democratic’, but it feels ‘class-driven’.

Once elected, many MPs feel and act as if they are above everyone else. And the culture within Westminster feeds into that delusion. Personal aims change, the plan…to end up a Lord or Lady in the upper House! [Why not, nearly £400 quid for an afternoon kip!!]

As they travel onwards on that journey, the meaning of democracy seems to dissipate. Promises made at the beginning are quietly forgotten, replaced by Party loyalty. It is, after all, their bosses who, one day may reward their faithfulness with a nudge up the class ladder!

And we, yes we, have a bad habit of helping them on that journey.

How?

We keep re-electing them in spite of their failures!

Only in politics does one get promoted for failure, and only in British politics do we have a system where the perceived elite can crush the voices of the people who disagree with the establishment.

We have no recourse apart from a GE. And the U-turns on having one when the ruling party changes leader are astounding! Everything changes when you are in power!!

What little Democracy we do have flies out of the window.

This will only change when people start voting for parties that offer Direct Democracy.

So don’t blame the politicians for wanting to stay on the gravy train, the problem is US!

We are the only ones who can change the system, especially here in Scotland, but once again our end-of-year school report shows failure. In May we voted for of the same.

Could someone explain to me why we did this?

We are like the wee hamster, afraid to come off the wheel. We know the wheel, and it’s safer to stick with what we know, even if that means we are going nowhere fast!

Our FM is eager to talk to the new PM about further powers! Another one happy to stay on the wheel, albeit a bigger one, but it’s still a wheel going nowhere.

Devolution is not Democracy!

It might have been an attempt to look like it, but Westminster holds all the important levers. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens without their say-so.

…and the new messiah isn’t going to change anything. He knows the value of Scotlands assets, and he’s about to use them.

We made a mistake in May, let’s learn from it!