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Why is it, that in any discussion among ordinary people, on any topic, practically everyone agrees that our ruling elite are totally out of touch with the feelings and aspirations of the general population?

The answer is simple. Whilst we all agree with the problem, how many people are prepared to do something about it?

Take the current example of the refusal by the government to hold a referendum on the new EU constitution. Almost 70% of the population, according to the opinion polls, think we should have one. The government refuses to contemplate the idea. The only possible explanation for this is that they think they might lose.

If only half the people who say they are in favour were to contact Downing Street and state they will oppose the government at the next general, and all intermediate and council elections, unless we get a referendum what’s the betting we would get an instant change of mind.

The aim of the ‘turning-worm’ web site is to mobilise the silent majority.

From a personal point of view there seem to be three major areas of concern. In no particular order they are Education (or lack of it), the Welfare State and Immigration.

How on earth can the government be considering raising the school leaving age to eighteen? The system is failing to educate children to an acceptable level in English and Maths now and pupils are allowed to drop out of these subjects before the current school leaving age. The only people who think there is no dumming down of examinations are the educational establishment, most of whom have no experience of education prior to comprehensives.

The Welfare State instead of being a floor, through which nobody is allowed to fall, has become ceiling through which many people cannot or, more importantly, have no incentive to rise. I cannot believe that it is beyond the imagination of our politicians to realise what happens if benefits are such that it is more lucrative to stay at home idle, or better still feign a long term illness, than to take a comparatively low paid job.

Nothing will change until the ridiculous notion that people are living in poverty if they have an income of less than two thirds of the national average is abandoned. The older generation today,  who started from humble beginnings and have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, could tell our mealy mouthed politicians a thing or two about poverty.

Immigration is compounding the issue. Although coming from poorer countries than ours many of the immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe, are better educated and have a much healthier work ethic than the indigenous population. How long this will continue after they are given the right to stay and learn to work the system remains to be seen.

What is certain, is that unless immigration is brought under control, the situation is going to deteriorate considerably in the for seeable future.

So, what to do?

Invariably, due to the first past the post electoral system, a party is elected to govern on a minority vote, usually around 43%. They then proceed to impose their views on the whole population via the whip system of enforced, follow the party line, voting.

The principle reason that governments, of all hues, fail to represent the wishes of the majority, is that they are all swayed by highly organised pressure groups. The most obvious example of this being the gay lobby.

Stonewall, the gay lobby group, started with a well intentioned objective to prevent discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, a view it is difficult to fault. This was extended to cover  practically all aspect of life including taxation, benefits, pensions and the doubtful proposition of gay marriage.

They have been so successful that gays have managed to join government, no reason why they shouldn’t, until we get the spectacle of members cruising Clapham Common for sex, advertising themselves clad only in underwear on gay web sites and appearing on National television in false eyelashes and mascara, and that’s just the men. The latest call is teachers to stop using  the words mother and father in school in case it courses offence and for children as young as four to be taught about the homosexual lifestyle. I think it is time to call a halt.

Watch this space for the advancement of the Islamic lobby. Our weaseley, liberal, politicians will be falling over themselves once again to jump on the band wagon.

It is time for the worm to turn and in order to start the process the buttons on the left will take you to various topics giving a few facts and the writer’s opinions. You may agree, or violently disagree, with the content. Whatever, you are cordially invited to join the discussion.

Whether your opinion is purely personal, you have
professional knowledge or experience in a particular field, you have inside knowledge of waste, inefficiency or bureaucratic incompetence, or can contribute anything that can help in the fight to get fair play and common-sense into the conduct of our governing bodies .Your opinion is welcome.

At the foot of each page is an e-mail address to enable you to contribute.

If we can generate a sufficiently large response maybe we can  make our politicians realise who it is they are
supposed to be representing.