POLITICAL APOCALYPSE

The political landscape doesn't change but the cast rotates and we all have to grin and bear it. It defies logic what's been going on at the other side of rotating door of 10 Downing Street, it feels like musical chairs is the new manifesto. Default leaders in charge of a listing ship do not inspire confidence, nor do they make a rational argument for not having an election, where the Great British Public can make a decision as to who they might prefer to take the reins.

It's hard to know who to trust though, that's the biggest take away from all this. Are any of the senior politicians who might fill the hot seat trustworthy? do any of them not have corruption shaped skeletons in their closets? It seems that they all have stories of arrogance, back handers, illicit liaisons and other shenanigans that don't befit a leader.

This is the modern political dilemma; the lesser of evils is the choice. The least grubby, the preference. The less tainted, gets the nod. In the ongoing political apocalypse every candidate appears to be a Colonel Kurtz.

Someone once said "democracy isn't working" and as it's the only system available I guess we are stuck with it. However, democracy can only work if the voter is educated. It can only work if, once educated, the voter can trust the candidates, and if the last couple of decades have taught us anything is that, while trust funds are abundant, trustworthiness is in short supply in Westminster