March 03, 2005
POWER report in how interested we are in politicians?
The CEP point to this form through which you can provide 'evidence' to the POWER report into Britain's Democracy.
I've filled it in and thought the whole thing read like a "the politicians are not feeling loved any more" bleat. My answers mostly confirmed that tone.
That question on the media had me sniggering. They asked:
3. Some people claim the media breeds cynicism about politics and politicians which discourages political interest and involvement. Is this true? If so, how can the media play a positive role in encouraging political involvement?I answered:
The media have been behaving like a political party in recent years. They should step away and concentrate on factual information and pure entertainment. Currently they are turning people off by being clearly politically biased either towards the right, or as is more common with the BBC, towards the left.I also told them where to stick devolution of England into the European Regions of England and informed them that the lack of proper representation for the English will either be fixed soon, or it will be fixed in the distant future, with the dilapidation of the Union measured by the length of the delay.
Why not have a go? Oh. I see. You're not interested. Figures.
