On Thursday 14 March 2013 11:35 Andy Champ wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On 14/03/2013 10:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Only Cameron was stupid enough to want to be in power cleaning up after
the biggest mess a Labour government had ever made.

He's stupid, mad, or dedicated. Or perhaps all.

Either he didn't see the mess coming.
Or he saw it coming, and thought he'd be able to fix it.
Or he saw it coming, and thought the best thing for the country would be
to take the **** rather than have more of the previous government.

Personally I'd go for mad. Specifically megalomania - which is common to
all politicians, as every single one of them has a delusional belief in
their own omnipotence. Add a touch of dedicated too.

Andy

I proposed an new (well, maybe not) idea over supper the other day...

A "randomocracy". Bit like Jury service. Pull a few hundred people for 4
years and give them a ministerial job or assistant to minister job.
Including the PM.

Totally impractical I know (Jury service buggers up work, how would this
work?) but could it be better - or less worse?

No career politicians.

No buggering about voting.

Lobbying would be dealt a huge blow.


Would rely on the civil service to provide the technical analysis of each
realm of issue and advice on the expected impact of any given solution - but
that's their job, and I don't think they are bad at it...

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