Why is nothing a resigning matter any more in the UK Parliament?
Ultimately, the stability of a government caught in misconduct depends on how much its people fear it. The free passes given to misconduct in the UK and in the US show that people can be frightened more by tiny external threats than by the loss of their liberties, until it is too late. That is why nothing is a resigning matter any more. No politician thinks the public will be so outraged as to sweep the boards clean of the current scoundrels for a new set of scoundrels.
Well. This has to do with how UK citizens value the voting system. Last week i asked on Yahoo!Answers why so many people voted either labour OR conservative when it’s very clear that neither political party truly represents the beliefs and values of the majority of people in this country. Most of the answers showed that people believe that a vote for a “smaller party” is a wasted vote. generally the misconception was that it’s better to vote tactically as a vote for a smaller party would be wasted. This is unfortunate because if we, as citizens of this country, began voting on policy and for what we actually believed in – we would have politicians who understood that our system of democracy means that they actually work for US and not the other way around.
