What
do you think of the current political system and its MPs?
Craig – FPC
‘Well the way they go on about themselves on TV, that they try to represent everybody don’t they? I don’t know if they actually do. How often once they get in power it’s like they blow it. They say they’ll do something and then they don’t, you know, that’s happened before.’
Tracey – CCI
‘They’ve already got the speech all wrote out and ready, but someone else has wrote it for them, and then it looks as though it’s coming from them.’
George – PYOI
‘Nothing. Because it never does anything for us anyway. No matter what we say... The government, they do more for the big business people, they don’t do nothing for the lower class people, everyone knows that, they never will change that. It’ll be all more for themselves... upper class people getting the better rights and that, we don’t get nothing.’
Dave – CCI
‘I don’t really believe in getting other people to represent your views... I think you have total responsibility for putting your own point of view across and acting to change things and to make things go in the right direction, because I don’t trust politicians.’
Jo – FPC
‘Well, I can’t really say because I’ve not voted yet... You get they things that tell you about it through the door and all that, and it’s like two ballot papers, the pink one and the red one and all that crap. I don’t know how it works right enough, myself.’
Tony – CCI
‘You look at things in the paper and you just see a face, a guy with a suit – “we’re trying to do this, we’re not like that”. I don’t even know this guy and you’re wanting me to vote for him. You want me to vote for you, try and make the future for me. I don’t even know you, I only know his face.’
Euan – PYOI
‘I don’t quite know how it works, but it always seems to go to the same people every time, and once they’re in they’re almost impossible to remove.’
Paul - FPC
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