You could say I'm a dreamer.

To my mind, Government should be there in the background, keeping us safe, providing timely and effective healthcare, education, financial security and care for people who are elderly, disabled, sick or disadvantaged, supporting charities and informal carers to partner with them in this task. It should not constantly be in your face, pursuing power and self interest at the expense of its citizens or our neighbours. It should quietly play its part in helping people in poorer countries, victims of war and refugees. Social justice and human rights should be a golden thread running through everything they do, always remembering that they are public servants rather than our lords and masters. Sadly human nature is not thus. We Brits are a warlike and angry race. We meddle in overseas wars and dream of distant days of Empire and  Commonwealth. Some of us however just want a quiet life, enjoying good relations with our neighbours across the seas, rather than striving for power and control. News is nearly always bad news and the effects of greed and selfish ambition taint us all. I would say that faith is the answer, and i believe it is, but humanity is so ruined by evil that many of us will never see the sort of trouble-free lives we desire here and now, though Jesus Christ promises a peace that the world cannot give, in the midst of our circumstances, and indeed a life after death, free from all the troubles of our current existence. Asking us, the people what we want is hugely problematic too, as we are all individuals and prone to give very different answers. Indeed many of us don't actually know what we want, or understand the implications of our choices, and such questioning leads to even greater polarisation in society rather than drawing us closer together. As has been much quoted in the news of late, “you could say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.”