Debate This Question - Why Isn't The UK Run As A Business By Private Enterprise Rather Than By Politicians?

I have often pondered over the whole ethos about why this country has to have any form of Parliament in the first place.In all the years I've been alive (55 so far),this country is still much the same as it was decades ago.The poor remain poor, the rich remain rich, poverty, homelessness and hunger by and large haven't changed much. Social housing is non-existant. Immigration has escalated and many of our once fine towns and cities are over-run with unwanted foreigners whose only reason for coming here is economic and to bleed it dry We have had Prime Ministers who down the years are all by and large incompetent as are the MPs we vote in year after year.Many of the current lot are a disgrace anyway.None of them have any business acumen apart from lining their own pockets and making us lot pay for it.They create laws which are are contrary to our natural way of life, enforce such laws with punitive punishments if we don't comply, and never listen to the electorate. In effect,I believe that MPs are nothing more than third-raters who'd never be tolerated in the business world because they're incompetent.



We have many successful business people who create,run and oversee many successful ventures. By contrast,we have many unsuccessful MPs who have ruined, and continue to ruin, the English way of life.Our country isn't ours any longer.Our once great Houses Of Parliament is nothing more than a rubber-stamping glorified County Council over which flies the flag of the United States Of Europe from which 75% of mainly anti-British laws come from.What,I ponder,will happen in the local and European elections soon?



My question is up for debate as follows:-



Why Isn't The UK Run As A Business By Private Enterprise Rather Than By Politicians?



I would love to know what you think.



Thank you.
Debate This Question - Why Isn't The UK Run As A Business By Private Enterprise Rather Than By Politicians?
Something I've thought about a lot in the US. Our governments are nothing more than large businesses. So, why don't the citizens look at the candidates that are most qualified to run the various aspects of the Big Business?



Here in the US we missed a great opportunity last Fall to put in place one of the most brilliant economic minds of our time, but the American people just simply couldn't get into their heads what was really important.



I'm sure that's similar thinking in the UK.
Debate This Question - Why Isn't The UK Run As A Business By Private Enterprise Rather Than By Politicians?
Margaret Thatcher had an American adviser named Milton Friedman, he was worse than usless between them they started the De Industrial Revolution. There aren't any unbiased Americans and they are mostly ill educated. I have worked among them. They are heavy going.They are for America only.

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Because the Queen won't let you.
The UK is already run like a private business
I think it would be a conflict of interest.
What are you saying, it already is a company, it has a board of directors, a few people get very rich and the majority never see any of the profits but break our @rses slaving for them
This is an excellent question. YEA! I have to say that it is! well worth the debate.....But how on earth would you set it within a democratic foundation?......I do see what you are saying. it would strengthen protectionism and nationalism. and perhaps have the effect to pull the people together, make their willingness to work! a true part of the reason for the success of their country....+ encourage business to look inward instead of the destructive way they do business at the moment.....World trade is proving a dodgy business so YEA!!....could make us wonderfully self sufficient. It would be interesting to see what others have to say.
Businesses are interested only in profit. Politicians (supposedly) are interested in making the country a better place. The two do not always go hand in hand.
It was in the industrial age. People were overworked and underpaid and starved with bad living conditions and no unemployment benefits, sick pay, medical attention, or pensions to look forward to. Little children worked long hours and were worn out many getting 'consumption' (TB) and dying from it and other diseases.

Coal was claimed by landowners, as were minerals and ore etc.

It is for a government to impose a decent standard of living on all people who labour.

When people work they should be paid fairly.

And I am a retired Managing Director.