It's been a very long time since there was any party that actually represented the common man.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely and politicians are the best example of that. How long since any party followed through on their campaign promises?
I'd like to see a system where the incoming party have to fulfill the [e.g ] 10 campaign promises within a limited timeframe. Something along the lines of fulfill 3 in year 2, 3 in year 3 and 4 in year 4. Failing to do so triggers an election.
Something like that to keep them honest rather than this all too common rhetoric of "now we're in power, the situation is worse than we realised so we can't do what we vowed we would do if elected". What bullshit, you sat in Parliament for X years berating the current incumbents for what you think they should be doing. There's no freeking way you didn't know what the state of the economy was and if you really didn't then that's on you because you had every opportunity to find out.
There's a saying here in Oz that suits politicians very well: shit cunts.
Apologies for the language.