Who serves who?

"Anyone who would be first must be last, and servant of all."


Does this quotation from Mark 9 ring any bells with readers where our politicians are concerned? Have you not heard it often enough that "Politicians are our
servants not our masters"?

I can easily accept the spiritual nature of the first quotation but I struggle to find any evidence for the reality of the second.



I invite you to do a simple but time-consuming test. Trawl through everything which Labour has done in the last ten years; every piece of legislation; every tax rise; every incursion into foreign nations; the lot.



Then very simply ask whether you agree - a simple yes or no. Then calculate the percentage.


My satisfaction rating runs well under 20%.


The trouble is that it would be the same with most Labour voters. Our masters do not give us what we want. They over-tax us but represent no views other than their own.


So who do our masters please other than themselves? - The answer is the liberal elite from whom our masters are drawn - and in none of the main three parties have we any possibility of an escape.