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Looking at the spectacle of our elected representatives with their greedy little snouts firmly in the trough, grabbing everything they can, it is obvous that something has to be done to bring this whole thing back under control.

I think I have a solution, while it is true that there have always been self centred, self serving members of parliament the real rot set in with the rise of the career politician. We now have a large number of MP's who have never experienced the real world, they have gone straight from education into politics and are weaker as a result.

I suggest we adopt a procedure that works well in the British military where regardless of how good or bad you are at your job the longest you can stay in post is 3 years. Remember even the President of the USA can only do 2 terms.

We should limit the tenure of MP's to a maximum of 2 terms and then out into the real world with no possibility of return.

This would work for a number of reasons, it would be self policing because there is the certainty of an end date where their grubby little secrets and deals would be revealed, they could not view it as a career, just a service to society and it kills of the complacency of the sitting member in a safe seat.

I have a good example locally where the MP is one John Bercow. The reality is that if the Conservative put up an orange jelly as its local candidate it would be elected. Bercow has a job for life and boy does he know it, he does arrogance and complacency for Britain. The result is that even though my natural tendency is to support the right of centre, I am disenfranchised because Bercow only ever does what is good for Bercow, not what is good for the electorate. A socialist voter in this area may as well be stripped of their vote for all the good it does them and thats not healthy in the long term because they just lose interest.

In addition to the simple restriction of the maximum term, if we only allow MP's who already live, or are prepared to move at their expense, in their constituency we don't have to buy them a house. We could buy a serviced apartment block close to Westminster and when in the House of Commons they could book a room. Funnily enough this is how it used to be with Dolphin Court in Pimlico.

Finally to complete the tidying up process we need to recognise that the number of electors making up a constituency is way out of date.
In a world of instant communications, internet, email and blogs an MP is perfectly able to look after twice as many voters. So instead of an average of 67,000 voters per constituency lets make it 130,000 which with an electorate of some 44,500,000 makes 341 MP's.

Thats a reduction of 318 of the greedy bastards, saving us all at least £160,000,000 per year and approaching a billion per parliamentary term.

Lets take our democracy back.

Well, I thought just go the other side of the world for a while and when I come back the insanity that is the UK will have at the very least stabilised - some chance !

So here I am back and incredibly the Brits have still not quite worked out that Brown and his clique are just dishonest, they care not a jot for the UK populace, they are merely determined to stay in power for as long as possible by whatever means it takes.

Rule One with these guys -take absolutely no notice of what they say, it will at best be a distortion of the truth, but keep a very, very careful eye on what they actually do.

Lets look at what has been done in the last 5 months, billions have been poured into the banking infrastructure - why ? the UK is a broadly capitalist society, you cannot have capitalism in parts because it doesn't work, in the same way you cannot just use parts of Keynesian theory. The banks should have been allowed to fail as the strong and surprise surprise better run one would have picked up the failed ones for a song. Consequently the crisis caused collectively by negligence of the banks management,the FSA and Brown would have been over in days. Perhaps more importantly the people who caused it would have got their just desserts. You can't get a £750,000 pension out of a bankrupt company. Is it I wonder coincidental that the worse culprits were The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Halifax Bank of Scotland, is this a Scottish plot to destroy England

But Brown and his " regulators" couldn't allow the collapse because it would have revealed their complicity in the failures.

They claim that it is in line with economic theory for the state to spend when in recession, again selective use of the theory, which in fact suggests that Governments build up surpluses during the good times to spend during the down part of the cycle.
Having borrowed like crazy during the boom Brown is trying to borrow even more to spend his way out of the bust. Big big problem Gord, first it gets ever less likely that anyone will lend you money and at some point future generations have to pay it back.

Although the latter is made easier by the elephant in the room, the huge lie that no one dare mention, now that Gord has pressed the Zimbabwe option on the great money printer in the sky the rate of inflation will inevitably rocket at some point in the near future, destroying the debt.

So Gordon you have now made a clean sweep, first you stole my pension, then you stole my income so that you could get your hands on my money for nothing (who else benefits from half a percent bank rate other than Government)now you have set in motion the process to destroy the value of my,and everyone elses, savings

In any other country this Government would have been driven from office by now, but the Brits seemed to have been hypnotised.

Wake up guys its not too late, yet.