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Saturday, 19 May 2012

Representative Democracy;

is fog and mirrors writ large on public life.
It is at best it is a circular motion.
Rather like pork barrel politics
where for having the vote
people exchange the passivity
of being kept for the active hope
of being listened to and material gain.

Any politician acting against the pressures
of their media advisers, their gate-keepers,
on a platform of reform will never last
without appeasing the old interests
that got them where they are now.
So what is the real hope of change?

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