Labour leader: UK in political crisis

“I think there is a crisis of politics in this country, there is a crisis of people thinking ‘I’m not going to engage with politics, you’re all the same, you all break your promises’,” he said in a speech in Harlow, Essex.

The Labour leader blamed the situation mainly on the ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats saying the shattered public trust is rooted in the current government policies that protect the “wrong people” and their lack of commitment to their election promises.

Miliband further tried to present the Labour party as an alternative that can “make a difference” and “offer people change.”

His attempt to use the opportunity to push people left comes as earlier this week, Commons speaker John Bercow, who is expected to remain politically impartial at all times, said earlier this week that the lack of trust is not limited to the ruling parties and the people are disillusioned with the whole political system.

“I think there is a wider dissatisfaction that people feel partly that the parties are still quite similar and perhaps there isn’t a huge choice, and partly they feel, well ‘I said what I wanted, and I voted accordingly, but I haven’t got what I wanted or what I voted for two years ago’,” he told Sky News.

“To some extent, (people) are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want,” he added.

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