Well the election is over at last but the media, especially radio and television, cannot shut up about it.
As for all those people who were turned away from the polling stations when they closed at 10pm, just what are they whining about? The polling stations were open for a full fifteen hours and no-one can tell me that there were queues from 7am until 10pm, so if they couldn't manage to get there, what the hell were they doing all day. Nobody had to travel for miles and miles to get to vote because this is not a third world country (I may be wrong there!). Most people that work are only in the work place for about 9 hours a day and for those not working, they had all day. Anyone who knew that they might not be able to get to a polling station because they would be working too far from home could have applied for a postal vote. So stop complaining!
The result shows that the politicians have not bothered to LISTEN to what the majority of people want and now all parties are trying to cosy up to each other to do 'deals' in order that they can form part of a government.
That is not what the majority of the electorate want. We want the politicians to stop fighting like children because nobody is right all the time and we want them to get on with getting this country back on it's feet.
The starting point should be education. I know from the last job I did before retiring that a very large number of young people are leaving school unable to read, write or do any maths or arithmetic. They also have no social skills or etiquette and nothing that would endear them to an employer and they all seem to be under the impression that they can be singers or DJ's without any talent whatsoever.
The benefits system needs to be completely dismantled too because we have encouraged at least two generations to sit back and expect the country to provide them with housing, benefits and pensions without them ever lifting a finger and putting anything in the pot in return. We should also put a stop on immigration because a lot of those coming here from other countries are economical migrants and trust me, some of the immigrants know their way around the benefits system much better than any civil servant. They also know all their 'entitlements' from day 1 and will be straight off to get legal aid if they don't get what they want and all this too at the taxpayers expense. Some of them have no intention of learning to speak English or ever finding work so again, become an enormous drain on our benefits and pensions.
That's just for starters and I really could go on and on. Perhaps they should make me Prime Minister because I'm sure that with the support of some more straight talking grumpy grandmas like me, we could soon get this country out of this mess.
For a moment there, I thought you were talking about the USA grandma. We have the same thing going on here too. Socialist politicans who refuse to listen, and a president with a vendetta against the middle classs. He's dividing the people, bankrupting the country and thinks no one can do anything about it. When the November elections hit, there will be alot of Washington career politicians out of a job. If there aren't, then our voting system is just a corrupt as our current leaders.
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