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is politics. People complain about the political systems, about crime, the food they eat, health care, public transport, the environment and immigration, etc. They blame the politicians and the system, but again we vote them in, or don't do, which can be just as bad and which I am guilty of. We hope for the best when we vote, but there is an element of cynicism creeping in and a realisation that many of these issues are about us as a society. Prominent politicians have said that there is no such thing as society or that our society is broken. In a way they are right; society has become individualised each to his own and we do not take care or notice of each other. So the system breaks and the rules and bureaucracy created to fix it does not work because they were created to fix something that does not exist. The only way the system can be fixed is from the bottom up, with parents, family, and local communities setting the agenda. Government has become far too removed and centralised to know how to address the system. Government is trying to rectify this by devolving responsibility and delegating power to the local councils, but Government themselves are still in a centralised mode of behaviour and their behaviour ultimately affects our behaviour and actions. So unless the system changes and becomes an inverted pyramid with us at the top, then nothing will change.

Judicial
The Justice System has let society down many say, with lighter sentences and unfair laws giving criminals rights and more power than the victims. Human Rights laws have made a travesty of court laws and victims have less protection than they ought to. Criminals are not rehabilitated in prison and re-offend more often than not. It is nonsense that criminals get to shroud themselves in human rights laws after they have breached them in the first place. Criminals are not victims of the system; they made a choice to transgress the system. They are responsible for their own actions and the system is no excuse. So when did the laws change? Who made it happen? We did when we voted in politicians who then unceremoniously unshackled those laws and surrendered them to faceless bureaucrats and judges. Human Rights laws are now so liberal that they hurt the very people they are supposed to protect. The system is out of balance and we have to find some way to prevent system abuse.

Corporate
Corporate responsibility, transparency and flatter companies should be pushed for as the norm. With globalisation, monetary

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