Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post

Vote in some competent, knowledgable politicians with respect for all parts of the country, to the extent of empowering them, and then I’ll perhaps offer them some respect and support.
Perhaps if enough people actually believed that we could govern ourselves we'd see a better calibre of candidates come forward.
I realise that this is a chicken and the egg situation.
I would be far happier to rid ourselves of useless tw@ts than watch from afar as decisions were made on our behalf which we had no say in and had even less chance of voting the politicians making those decisions out at the next election.