The Problems With Democracy

Here's a list:

1. Funding
2. The Party Whip undermining the ability of MPs to represent their constituents or, even, their own conscience
3. Spin and lies
4. Unfulfilled manifestos
5. General elections rest on voters making complex choices that mingle personality and policy
6. Top down not bottom up
7. Inaccurate information
8. Statistical naivety
9. Low voter power
10. First past the posts skews electoral power
11. Point scoring debates and sound bite politics
12. Pursuit of the centre ground leading to stagnation politics
13. Little voter choice
14. Little connection with voters
15. MPs can't represent the views of their constituents because they don't know what the majority of them think
16. Local and European politics aren't well presented in the media