Do you like cooking? TV is awash with cookery programmes encouraging us into the kitchen. Kitchen manufacturers spend endlessly to persuade us to install new kitchens. And some of us do both. But! Sales of readymeals grow and grow.We all like the convenience of fast food . We don't want to be endlessly in the kitchen struggling with ingredients and processes.
And so with politicians. They can't for the most part grapple with the complexities of life. Things are complicated and getting harder. Politicians are not the most able people to start with and work is not their favourite pastime. Politically - they can't cook. So what? So they buy a political readymeal- an -ism, an ideology. Signup to be a something and the pain of thinking goes away. Life is easy, the party tells them what to think and do. Time to relax and reap the rewards.
And these are the people who are governing us. You can't get into government except through a political party. You and I mostly lead our lives well away from political parties, very few of us are members and we would seldom seek their advice or assistance. But they govern us. And they are fed on political readymeals. They have not the slightest idea of how we live, of what we seek or of how to help. Politics is debased to party politics and it needs to change.
