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A new politics for 2010

21.12.2009 // by Guy Aitchison

How will 2009 be remembered? For many people, no doubt, it will go down as the year we discovered just how rotten politics has become with MPs more interested in improving their homes at the taxpayers' expense than improving the lives of their constituents.

We've heard their excuses time and time again since the expenses scandal broke; we've heard how it was just a few "bad apples" that abused the system.

But the rest were complicit in the corruption by not speaking out and the result has been the whole system dragged through the gutter.

What can we do, then, to make 2010 a year to be proud of? That's up to us. If we want to see real change in our politics in the New Year then we need to send a clear message to politicians that we won't allow them to let us down again.

That's why we're asking the many thousands of people in the POWER2010 movement to send a clear message to the Party leaders calling on them to make a strong New Year's resolution to embrace the change that they failed to grasp in this one and commit to a new politics - one powered by people and not politicians.

The party leaders like to speak about change and the need to clean up politics.

But so far these fine words haven't been matched by a firm commitment to reform. We want you to tell the Party leaders that their New Year's resolution should be to commit to a new politics - then together we'll make sure that they keep their promise.

Click here and tell Brown, Cameron and Clegg what you expect from them in 2010.