Politics

I think most would agree that, in order to be a politician, you need to be able to put the best face on things, make yourself look good no matter what; have a hunger for power; be able to speak confidently about things you might not really know that much about, and at short notice.

It's a horrible sounding job - being the fall guy, the front. If you have any personal beliefs you have to bury those in order to be in step with your party - moreso the higher you rise.

And then we wonder why we have horrible people doing the job. People who will say blue one day, green the next just to stay in the job.

Well, it's the system that puts those conditions on politicians. The lies, half truths and evasions must become so embedded that a clear sense of right and wrong often gets lost.

How can we be surprised that MPs have trouble seeing that their expenses claims are outrageous when millions are wasted by their departments...

I'm really beginning to see that, if we really want politics and politicians to change, we need to rethink how they get into power and under what circumstances they can stay in power.

If the system that employs them recognises openness, and removes the necessity for an opposition thats role is solely to undermine the ruling party, we could do so much better, I think.

Drop parties - give individuals the right to always vote how they feel they *should*, rather than how their party tells them to.

And, of course, think more about "people" than "corporations".