This is typical of the mainstream political parties. Accusing those who are disaffected or apathetic of being cynical and alienated without addressing the situations that made them that way. "Fight the 'cynicism and alienation'" is not addressing the things that are alienating those voters and making them cynical.Labour is well-placed to win a "whole number" of key seats in the 2015 General Election, Douglas Alexander has said following local election results.
The shadow foreign secretary added that the party must continue to fight the "cynicism and alienation" that is driving the UKIP vote.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday 23 May.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27534647
There are a number of reasons why I feel alienated and cynical about the major political parties here in UK.
You can barely get a proverbial cigarette paper between the policies of the three. Their core policies are almost identical. All three parties are in favour of staying in the EU. All three parties push their own opinions down our throat; what we should or should not eat, drink, say or do. Not ONE has, in recent years stood up for people's right to choose and ALL are afraid to look bad in the media, so choose to keep the status quo. Not ONE has stood up for something just because they think it is right and all of them have used subterfuge and trickery, manipulation of figures and statistics to make it look like they are doing what voters want when it is clear by the current rebellion amongst voters that they are not doing what voters want. It is far easier for them to fiddle a few figures than it is to actually change their policies and do what voters want them to do.
None of the parties listen to the voters. The come in with set agendas which are not constructed in a way that improved the lot of the voters, but are rather set to improve their own lot. They are all intransigent, stick to their own party line, obeying their masters and pandering to the richer classes whilst sticking their two fingers up to the less well off. All three have voted for policies that have made the poor poorer and the rich richer. All three have voted for policies that make adult education more difficult and more expensive to get. All three have supported policies that make our schools political platforms instead of places of learning.
All three major parties have been moving toward the right, with policies that favour those who have wealth whilst at the same time making life harder and more stressful for those who are not wealthy. All three have gradually stripped away people's right to welfare when they need it and all three are currently planning on taking us into a more Americanised system that assumes everyone is on the fiddle unless they prove otherwise. All three have used disingenuous arguments to portray benefit claimants as scroungers and frauds. The current terrible twins have abolished disability benefit and are now forcing people who are too ill to work back to work. The Labour party have no intention of reversing any of what they have done, so what's the point in getting them back with their "Big Brother Britain" attitude to our freedoms. That's just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on but that's enough for now.
So, when I see a top politician saying that they should "fight the 'cynicism and alienation'"without any promise to address the causes of those things, I am very suspicious that what he means is "make dissent more difficult and keep the cynicism out of the media so that everyone can live in happy land and will agree with us because they never hear any other arguments."
{edited to close quote tag ~ Mac}

