Why do people in Britain hate the government and politics??

[xxCurlyTotsxx]

Like, punks hate the government and Gordon Brown...

I don't understand politics and crap like that...

[allan]

everyone who truly understands politics hates their goverment

[sherlock]

Because whinging and whining about the Government is the National sport.

[CLIVE H]

"Man is a political animal"
Socrates of Athens.

The great philosopher and thinker, Socrates, put his mind to work on the subject of the people [mankind] and our politics and political thinking.

Our entire lives are governed by our political ideas and the political will of the people, which is made manifest at an election.

The electorate here in UK are now dissatisfied with their elected government and want change.

Here in London we have already elected a Conservative Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, known otherwise as BoJo.

The knock on effect is now quite evident here to me in London where I live and there is growing demand for change.

The next General Election here in UK is not due until 2010. In the meantime, you'd imagine in a sane world that TeamGBs return from the Olympics with so much gold and other Olympic medals, would boost the government's place in the polls, but it has not. In fact things are so bad for the Gordon Brown UK.gov that the only hope for Labour is a fine British Coup - one which results in the decapitation of Gordon Brown.

Even if Labour do manage to somehow elect themselves a new leader before the next general election, there is no guarantee that the people will elect Labour back to power.

On the contrary, the people are now so dissatisfied with Labour, there is not even the slightest chance of their recovery in the polls.

I've seen all this before and know from my own gut feeling that the next general election will see the people return a Conservative UK.gov to power.

In politics it is not a matter of hating the people you do not agree with, but simply opposing them at every opportunity. Thus when the people are asked to cast their votes, they will know what to do.

[robert c]

Because the electorate have found out what really goes on in Westminster!They have realised that the old fashioned way of politics that people had confidence in has long gone!
And that we are 'saddled' with a bunch of money grabbing opportunists who are recruited in Labours case from the millionaire lawyer/solicitor class who are only interested in the money and honours they can accumulate in a short time!
Added to that!They are placed on Board of Directors in City conglomerates as advisors and consultants!
Which ever way you look at it!They are making money!Hand over fist at the taxpayers expense;Namely!The widows,pensioners and one parent familiesIn short!They are living off the backs of honest men, women and children!
They have finally been exposed for what they really are!Frauds!

[Mark G]

Because people think in black and white. While I am in no sense a Labourite and personally disliked Blair's administrative style, I am mature enough to understand the motives behind most policies come about after deliberation and through a desire to extend the common weal. Unfortunately most people find it easier to dehumanize those they disagree with, and see grand, sweeping, brutal, one-shot policies as the answer, when nothing is ever that simple.

[Beyond brainwashing]

Because politicians are full of lies and full of corruption.

Don't be conned by polititions. They are different horses from the same stable to con you into thinking that your vote counts, well it doesn't. Go to you tube and type in "Clinton Curtis voting machine" and you will see the inventor swearing in court that the votes are fixed.

Go to you tube and type in "the real John McCain".

[Scotsman in Chile]

lassie i be no punk. yet i hate Gordon Brown with all my being,
he was a Scot once and grew up near me here in fife.Now he is english in english politics, he betrayed Scotland and england, he is the most inept leader of a nation we have ever known. he makes Mugabe of Zimbabwe look like a saint.

we hate politics because of the corruption in Westminsters parliament and the fact they do no listen to what the people say. Westminster and gordon brown could care less about the people of any nation in the UK, just so long as they as politicians can line there own nest while the rest suffer . westminster and new labour are as close to a communist regime as the the EU and the old USSR

thats why i HATE our government and especially Gordonski Brownakov

thats why i now live in chile and wait for Scotland to fight for independence , then i wull return and fight as well

[buschgardens]

Politics is not crap. It has to do with how to govern a country and its people. As long as people walk this earth, politics will follow right behind them.

[Matt]

People hate the government and politics because all we see in the media is mistakes they make and we are also not taught enough about how our government works in school so right from a young age people don't tend to know anything about it unless they study it at a higher level.

We should be educated more on how politics works and effects us because it is responsible for just about everything in our society.

Also, the UK's political parties argue so much that they just make each other look stupid. Gordon Brown may not be liked but I'd rather he be running the country than that smug David Cameron.

People also don't like the government at the moment because they can't even keep memory sticks secure; they've lost tons of information on UK citizens recently.