Spot on this, imo

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6. Pfft!

Well of course you must have a policy, but the focus should be on the houses, rather than the policy itself

It's precicely this sort of wonkish drivel that drives people away from the main parties I'm afraid. You talk about how politicians have become wrapped up in their own bubble, but it's statements like this that prove the assertion that politicians are living in ivory towers detached from the rest of us.

Theirs is a mindset that to achieve something, all that they have to do is to debate, hold meetings, make rules and laws and regulations and write them down. Real life doesn't work like that.

Like it or not that is a large part of politics, the question is, how do mainstream political parties get people to engage with all this outside of the SW1 bubble? Of course it doesn't help that all 3 main parties have let their grass roots operations wither. And also that too much power is held by the central offices of the 3 main parties.