UK election drags on and on

I remember so well when I left the UK in 1991 the relief at not having to listen to radio shows featuring politicians. Politicians, by default, are the only people on earth that out perform bankers, people who work in other forms of finance, and insurance people, as the slime of the earth -- and they do it easily. I've been back less than 24 hours and just turning on The Today Show, which, otherwise is one of the best radio news programmes in the world, submits me to 'interviews' with politicians.
Naturally, with an election coming up, the lack of interview content has actually increased. Yet more slime-balls telling yet more lies and refusing, in the rudest possible terms, to give any question a straight answer. In a true democracy, politicians and bureaucrats would by law (and more drastic medical procedures where necessary) be restricted to saying only "Yes" or "No". After-all, they don't need to say anything else and submitting anyone to their general, offensive drivel otherwise should be a criminal offence with the gravest consequences. Equally, the Yes/No answers they give should also be scrutinised for the slightest inaccuracy and suitably painful and irreversible punishments meted out accordingly for untruthful answers.
It would be slightly more acceptable if politicians actually said anything of any substance, but too many, regardless of party, spend their time and waste everybody else's by simply stating their biased views of opposing party's policies or personnel. Right wing politicians, who have absolutely no scruples at all, and no interest whatsoever in anything except their own well being, are particularly adept at criticising without adding anything at all of substance. It's a complete joke. And they expect people to vote for these prostitutes? "Vote for me! My body, soul, and what little integrity I have, is for sale" -- but of course, the fact that normal people won't hear or see a jot from these same people until the next prostitution exercise.
Even more amusing is the totally expected news that people are offering their votes for sale on eBay. This makes the whole idea of democracy a laughing stock and is, apparently, illegal, but hardly surprising. With the amount of money spent on such political campaigning, especially in the American Empire but increasingly elsewhere as well, denying the ability to sell one's vote is largely hypocritical. Our votes are already being bought -- the party with the highest campaigning budget usually wins (although not always because, quite clearly, high advertising budgets can be balanced out by excess slime, hypocrisy, and other unacceptable animal behaviour which usually overflows after a few years).
But perhaps most important of all, a so-called news headline which talks of a political party's view or PR announcement is not, by default, a true piece of news. It's like announcing 2+2=4. I think all such headlines should be preceded by 'BO': Bleedin' Obvious, because they're clearly not going to be saying anything else. Today the so-called Liberal Democrats (I say so-called, because these names are simply a form of branding, the content is identical in every case) announced their so-called manifesto. I was doubly amused last year when Japanese politicians, for the first time in history, also issued their first manifestos. It is farcical to even suggest that, as an elected politician, a Japanese person should actually do anything apart from fall asleep in a nice room in Tokyo, rake off extra tax funds by employing non-existent assistants, and generally make any kind of international relations a news issue, (oh, and of course give tacit support to the glorious efforts of the Japanese military in the 1930s and 1940s, but that's so BO that it's hardly worth saying; the Chinese, while actually just wanting to keep Japan off the security council, actually have a good point about Japan's indifference to the genocide they inflicted in the War). Japanese politicians, were, therefore, far less slimey than their Western counterparts. At least they didn't make false promises. Some even admit they only get elected for the money, and the Japanese people are quite happy to elect actors, singers and comedians, such as the current Japanese Prime Minister. We even had politicians openly scoffing at the fact that their own party's manifesto actually meant anything other than a chance to make some money on their shares in DNP (Dai-Nippon Printing).
Clearly Douglas Adams was correct in saying, "Anyone capable of getting themselves elected, should under no account be allowed to do so", and that politicians should merely be the PR front that deflects attention away from the real power of government decision making. The American Empire has managed this with their last two presidents, and Japan has done this for more than 40 years.