My politics

Most of you will know that I am no politician. My ideas are not clear enough, my ideals are... flexible to say the least (though not that flexible) and I am incapable of maintaining a position when I am not sure that I am right. However, there are a few measures I would like to see proposed by the politicians of the country I vote in (so, Spain. I would like to see it in the UK too, but it seems even less likely in this country).

1. Anyone elected for public office (this does not include people working in the public sector however, just those who have been elected) should be obligated to use the public healthcare system.

2. Anyone elected for public office should be obligated to use public education.

3. Anyone elected for public office should only be allowed to hold one public office at a time, perhaps excepting those cases where one public office requires the holding of another public office. Having been elected for public office implies that no other job will be held at the same time.

4. Those public offices that require holding another public office should be minimised, and if possible, eliminated.

5. Politics should not be a profession. People should be able to hold public office for the time when they do so, and be compensated for time taken off whatever job they had prior to obtaining public office, but once their term is done, they should go back to that job. No one in public office should be offered a life-long post or stipend for having been in public office.

6. All workers in the public sector (including people elected for public office) should make a salary based exclusively on their qualifications, years of experience and hours of work put in. In cases where results are measurable in an objective way, it could be possible to have bonuses based on performance (this is very difficult, for example, teachers, where good performance cannot necessarily be measured by good grades if the grades are handed out by the teacher, which is the current situation in Spain. Also, teachers cannot be penalised if they routinely teach classes with less intelligent students or routinely teach students with learning difficulties).

I can't think of anything else right now, but I think these measures would do a lot to eliminate corruption, nepotism, etc. in politics and the public sector. But whatever. I'll never be a politician, people who think these are measures that should be implemented will never be politicians, and if or when they are they would never get into power. So that's that.