The Campaign for a positive campaign

Dear Politicians, Political Parties and Media Editors, Thank you MPs for giving the British Public another opportunity to vote on important issues that will shape the short and middle term future of our country. As much as many of us (the electorate) are reasonably fed up with the whole process, democracy is a good thing if for no other reason than it makes our leaders think hard about the general public and our needs and desires. (Of course it is not always true to say that the general public knows what is best, but that is another discussion.) However, it remains true that a vast number of us are fed up with the whole process, and for my part I know why. I am fed up with the school yard bickering that we see in parliament week after week. Where issues that involve the lives and livelihoods of the people of our nations are always at stake, too often our MP’s are more concerned about making a clever remark that insults or belittles the opposition rather making a coherent and w...