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Matthew Sinclair Better Government

Stephen Glover, writing for the Mail, laments the grip of inexperienced politicians on our public services:

"The irony is that the professional politician, fixated on power and on a limited but guaranteed financial reward, often turns out not to be a professional at all, but a bumbling amateur who struggles to remain on top of a brief. And that is why it is a certain bet that, with politicians like these, we will continue to read about one Government plan after another going wrong."

The solution isn’t to find politicians with different backgrounds but to avoid relying on them to deliver effective public services. Instead, we should hand control back to civil society.

Matthew Sinclair

Matthew is Director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, author of Let Them Eat Carbon and editor of How to Cut Public Spending (and still win an election)

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Hardeep_Singh

Like thieves and their bounty it’s difficult to separate the two. Unfortunately the same is true of the politician and the cash cow they call “holding office”. Just look at the Clinton’s they’ve turned this into a finely crafted family business!