Becoming A Politician

Not for the first time, it has been suggested to me I should go into politics. Usually it's a man-on-the-street type who tells me this, but this time it was a lawyer who went to school with St Tony of Blair. Not really the kind of person I would expect to vote for someone with penchant for listening to Slayer and a face with several piercings, but who nevertheless thought my opinions fresh and interesting, and felt I would garner no small amount of support, at least around London, with my views.

Now I must admit becoming a politician would be nice from a financial point - my first proper job was shoving wooden pallets around a warehouse, at the tender age of 16, for £1.80 an hour, so earning over £50k is something I could appreciate without going to find a trough to shove my snout in. Maybe if most of the troughing cunts who 'represent' us had to do some crappy physical labour work (washing bird shit off plastics seats at 6am was a memorable job) they'd appreciate being given a guarantee of future comfort.

But what are the chances of making a difference? After all, if I simply wanted wealth I could earn a small fortune doing various illicit things that wouldn't attract legal attention. No, if I went in politics I'd want to change things, improve the nation.

You may disagree with how I'd achieve that, but I would want to pursue the improvement of British citizens lives. I can't see how the cosy elite, ensconced as they are in the Establishment, would want to alter that. The status quo suits them.

Inertia is moving the nation inexorably towards a pure-state solution, from Labours increasing of state-based systems, to the EU turning into a barely-accountable federal state. I doubt I'd get the support to wrestle us out of that, or any of the problems the political elite can't see exist from their suburban, mainly-white enclaves. It's not problems they encounter, so they don't care - their class get voted in either way, and it's just a case of looking after themselves.

It's not another politician that's needed, it's a popular uprising. And we're at least a decade away from that.

I may still have a crack at politics though, I'm bored with IT, but right now I'm in a deeply unhappy place, so any decision will have to await until my breed of Churchill's 'Black Dog' runs away.