When the press asked me why I'd resigned I told them it was because I could not find a Tory in it.
The party chairman was a weak and obedient old white man who told the press a load of nonsense stories about my personal character to protect the party.
The party is everything. The constituents come a very remote second. Yet the constituents are oblivious. Just like in communist soviet union. This sounds far fetched until you've held a seat on the inside of a UK political party and observed what really happens. It is no different fundamentally.
Anyway during the campaign, on the hustings I pitched my policy and got very few public questions. But afterwards in the safety of privacy I always had a crowd of keen people surrounding me wanting to know more.
They would say how refreshing it was that someone had a policy, at all, which anyone could understand and liked and that the candidate was confident about.
I would ask "then can I expect your vote?" They would always say "no".
When I asked why not they would say "because you will never get elected".
Can you see the problem now?
It is the people who are the people's own worst enemy. The people, in a democracy, choose not to act authentically for the collective. Ironically they seem to want a master to rule and protect them rather than to be autonomous democratic citizens with duties and obligations.
So if you look into the murky depths of society, in a democracy, the people truly want a master to protect them. In spite of all the wailing when never ending up getting what was promised. Repeating this neurosis over many election cycles as death approaches.
Shhhh! Do not discuss this in public. Nothing could be more a matter of shame and guilt for a citizen. Citizens across the political spectrum will close ranks and come down hard on any foolish politician who brings this stark truth into the light.
And so it goes...
Until the people find a backbone, things will remain this way no matter which party it is and which policy gets adopted. Wealth and power will continue to rule, often unjustly as master and it will be the people who asked for it absolutely.
It's no use blaming wealth and power for anything. That would be like a spoiled child crying to Mummy because they cannot have their sweeties.
It's no use rolling out the prisoners' dilemma fallacy either. There is no game theory happening when the players are acting like slaves to a master they wilfully selected.
BTW, I came last in the election. Do I sound bitter and twisted? Maybe. What I've been doing is observing what is happening in front of my face and not flinching when what I see is not so cosy. May I humbly suggest you do the same.
