The Mason Manifesto

Ahead of polling day on 6 May, <b>Steve Mason</b> offers a (strictly non-) political party broadcast

Feature by Steve Mason | 04 May 2010

"I would encourage people not to waste their valuable energy going to a polling station; it's a complete and utter waste of time and it doesn't matter who gets in. The banks and large corporations run this country and most others in the world. If you really want to do something, form a political party, talk and learn about what's happening in other countries and what's likely to happen in this one.

"Mainstream politics is completely dead and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. I believe in democracy and capitalism but I think that capitalism needs to be restricted considerably and free enterprise reintroduced, because it's got to the point where huge numbers of people work in a call centre, for a mobile phone company or in a fast food outlet. Very few people own their own businesses and there are huge restrictions on anybody doing anything remotely imaginative or for themselves. Every single thing that you do, the government want it done in a specific way that they can control. We need to retake our country because right now it's being run by fucking crooks."

Steve Mason plays RockNess Festival, Dores on 13 June.

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