Is our society broken?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7566979.stm

How can it be fixed? Will Dave be the one to do it?

Answer 1

The lasting legacy of Blair (and Brown) is a deep, deep mistrust of politicians in power.

With their smoke and mirrors, spin tactics they have destroyed the credibility of the government. Nobody believes anything they say, including official government statistics (e.g. even the official inflation figures are treated with widespread mistrust!)

Brown is suffering for this now. When he needs trust and goodwill to cope with a difficult situation, there is none.

I'm not sure this is fixable.

But Cameron must not repeat the error in government, people do not like being lied to. And they will vote accordingly.  

Answer 2

It's scare-mongering - apparently all Cameron is good for.

Shevek_k ; thank frig for your post! xD [I don't doubt I'll get a thumbs-down for this, but w/e]

Answer 3

Despite the hype in the media our society is not broken. Most people live peaceful, productive life's, get on with their neighbours and do not break the law.

There have always been antisocial misfits living predatory life's on the wrong side of the tracks.

Cameron is a power hungry opportunist, a sound bite junkie, who will say or do anything to get elected.

If you actually look at the policies of the Cameronites, the ones the media do not report, they are little different from Thatcherism. One such policy is to involve charitable organisations in the running of the Welfare State.

Once in power Cameron will be just as subject to the vagaries of economics as every other politician and will trim his sails accordingly whatever he may promise now.

What would be a refreshing change in UK politics would be someone who does not meddle and adopts a policy of if it ain't broke don't fix it. Cameron is not the one who will "fix" anything.

Answer 4

Do your bit to fix anything broken where you are.

Answer 5

No - it is just nuts

Answer 6

I have found that Conservative politicians' ideas of 'radical reform' usually mean they're going to take more of your rights away.

Answer 7

I very much doubt it. "Conservative leader David Cameron has said he will be as radical a social reformer as Margaret Thatcher was an economic reformer." Couldn't read past that. Tried to but the mention of Thatcher scared me.

Answer 8

The only thing that is broken in society is the right.

Answer 9

I feel there is no one in politics in Britain that has the grit to turn around our present spiral of despair,

Cameron has some of the answers but not I fear the b-lls to implement

them, we need a slightly modified version of Maggie Thatcher behind the wheel, weed out these ott human rights lobbyist that with their PC mates,have dragged Britain into the mire of not allowed, and let us take the knocks of life on the chin and become stronger for it,

I know Maggie destroyed the unions and had other faults, but when she was forced out, Britain was a much better, safer, cleaner and more stable place than its been since the war.

Answer 10

look mrs t destroyed the country took away our wright as British people to have a good and secure place to live by introducing the dog eat dog

she sold off water ,gas ,electric and the NHS, rail etc david  wants to introduce her ways back ,is the man that thick does he want Britain on the verger of a civil unrest as happened with the pole tax.

To answer your question not yet but if we vote in this plonker it will

Answer 11

There is no quick fix for society in the UK. The best that can be hoped for is a damage limitation exercise with the use of legislation to curtail the exploits of the morons who now pervade our society like a cancer.

In the last 30 years we have been changed from a social society into a working one.

Like it, or not, in this country work takes precedence over all - including family life. Our children our thrown into day care from birth onwards and from there into education with next to no parental guidance or interest - then we wonder why family units consist of total strangers with no communication, kids roam the streets and we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

People living in the same street are now strangers to each other. How many posters on this site can name their neighbours three doors away? We no longer have any sense of community and people couldn't a S**t about others on condition it does not affect them personally.

We live in country which does not sleep with people who have no sense of responsibility when it comes to disturbing others late at night with late night parties, shouting in the streets and vehicles with big bore exhausts racing around at 3am. 30 years ago the Police enforced the hours of silence and noise abatement - today it would be impossible to enforce.

We are a nation of 62 million people most of whom have no sense of loyalty toward, or pride in, this country. It has become a country of existence with 32 million workers and 30 million non-workers trying to scratch a living.