Bag's Rants

Voters are looking for quick returns lately.

I was reading this article on Angela Merkel's political troubles in Germany. Basically it's about her failure to deliver on her promises from her election. The part that caught my eye was that it was only 13 months ago she was elected. How quickly the Germans were expecting some action.

It made me think about what happened here in the UK as well. When Blair was reelected last year it was not long after that when it started to go wrong for him. Now here we are 15 months later and he has been pushed out, well OK nearly, and is working on his resignation tour. Bush was pretty much the same not long after his reelection he was looking at the lowest popularity figure for a president in a long time with active rebellion and calls for impeachment. Coupled with the political upheavals in other parts of the world it pains a surprising similar picture. Corruption and/or failure to deliver.

Could this be an indication that the electorate all over the world is really fed up with politics? All politicians are now being viewed in a unsympathetic light. Given no quarter when they fail to deliver. Maybe they will change their ways and actually only promise what they can deliver. Maybe they will change the system so that they are only in office for two years between elections. In the olden days four or five years was OK but nowadays it is clearly too long.

It actually shows how corrupt politicians are. Not just here, all over the world.

I'm laughing now when I hear of them paying the price and the reactions of the public are certainly hotting up. Riots, assassinations. Being a politician is looking like a high risk career choice now. Long may it be so.

posted by Bag @ 1:28 pm