I am afraid my opinion of senior politicians running the country is extremely low and getting lower all the time. They are basically amateurs, its not their fault they are amateurs, but what is wrong is when they actually act and believe they have special skills. I am sorry to any senior civil servants out there, but the whitehall type ones again I have a low opinion of. They are often miles from the coal face. Many don't have technical training and have come from a humanities type background. They usually can express themselves very well in both writing and speech and have a decent intelligence level, but its their net effectiveness that concerns me. I do think resources should be a bit more directed at local government than central governement. I am starting to sound like a senior politician!