I was never keen on old Orwell - far too pesamistic. For a much better tretise on why we can never have the Utopian ideal is The Ragged Trousered Philantropist - The unabridged edition, not the selected highlights they fed us at school. Robert Tressel manages to fully convince you that a socialistic anarcic society is the ideal and in the last few pages explains why it can never happen. I'll not say any further in case you have not read it.

I do fully understand that and always have. The major point of my previous post is that, in my opinion, all politicians are the same. Even the ones who seem to genuinely want to help people are not a full shilling! It is a bit of a catch 22 but to want to govern a country, in my mind, should automaticaly disqualify the candidate on the grounds of mental instability.

I don't have the answer I'm afraid but I hope that if enough people realise that even a democracy has its flaws one of them will be clever enough to provide a better alternative:-)

Cheers

Dave the Gnome