Representative Government Has Broken Down. Our Politicians Represent Not The
People Who Vote For Them But The Commercial Interests Who Finance Their
Election Campaigns.
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the
people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their
election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
-- Edward Abbey
We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are
represented in this programme. It was never our intention to imply
that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more
concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles
than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that
they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital
matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before
the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply
at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce
of concern for the vital social problems of today....