I spent my evening on Monday on Endwell and Vesta Roads; a lot of issues were raised from Japanese Knotweed, delayed and non-existent repairs by Lewisham Homes to car 'keying' on Vesta Road. Also, there is still the complete distrust of politicians; though I do not consider myself to be one, I am tarred with the same brush. Can you really blame people, when the very people who were flipping homes or claiming for everything they could, are still MPs and earning tax-payers money?
Today, the BBC is reporting that the new Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow MP, has ordered a £20,000 refurbishment of his grace-and-favour flat, i.e. free palace-on-one-level, even after the former speaker spent £724,600 on it from 2000 to 2008. These people still do not live in the real world. The real world in Telegraph Hill is about getting damp and leaks sorted out before the end of the decade, not about £6764.30 on a new 'sofa set'.
With all this greed and self-indulgence at our expense, I find myself supporting a new voting system, something I have never been sure about before. Alas, PR would give much needed stimulus to the recovery of people's trust in those that are elected to run our institutions on our behalf. I can see no other way, as democracy is so damaged that someone like me is finding it harder than ever to convince people I am genuine.
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