Can't really offer much discussion as I agree with everything written, but it was well written and I enjoyed it (as much as a very depressing topic can be enjoyed). I'm 39 and feel that corruption in politics has been the norm for as long as I can remember but I'm still clinging on to some hope that a labour government will be able to do some good despite campaigning on being centrist. If they win and don't start making improvements then I'll have no reason to believe things can ever get better and then what's left to me, despair?

As an englishman I do take some comfort from the Welsh and Scottish politicians, it seems like they're doing a better job of serving the people than the English politicians.

I think you might have used their instead of there here: "The very concept of their being"

I can't see there being any way one state would work, any sane jew would leave as soon as it looked like they were losing control of the government, more likely they'd never allow it to come to that. I'm interested in thoughts on the settlements making two states non-viable. I assumed removing some of the Jewish settlements would have to be a part of the two-state solution. Do you think it's too late for that?

I hear you on the ethnostate issue, ideally Israel would have never been created and never have been needed, Jewish people could have lived safely in developed non-secular countries. But it was and it is, so we have to deal with the reality as it stands now.

Israel exists to create a safe place for Jews. In a democratic one state solution jews would be in the minority in Israel so it would no longer be a safe haven for them, Israel would effectively no longer exist.