Starting a new political party

I´ve been interested in politics and the economy for quite a while and was thinking of joining one of the mainstream parties. After thinking about it I have realised that the existing parties are all lacking something. After doing some searching here,

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/government-in-ireland/national-government/houses-of-the-oireachtas/registering_a_political_party

I would be interested in hearing peoples opinions on starting a new political party. The current parties are clearly disconnected from the average person on the street.

Fianna Fail are hell bent on pulling this country into financial slavery for the next generation. Their big idea is NAMA, an agency which will add about 60 billion onto the national debt to save a bunch of banks who took excessive risks in property lending. ( I currently work for one of these banks, if the details of some of the loans that were given out in the past few years were public knowledge there would be riots, the banks were driven by greed and an "Us too" philosophy where proper lending practices often went out the window, the banks most guilty of this should not be bailed out, nationalise them and wind down their operations. In general, Fianna Fail refuse to accept the blame for the bad decisions they have made in power and lack the will power to tackle the vested interest interests in the economy.

Fianna Gael have some talented politicians (Richard Bruton for example is extremely competent) but also suffer from a lack of will to make the big decisions, they often avoid to make their positions clear for fear that they won´t get votes while I believe many people would vote for them if they just stood up and said exactly what they believed what needs to be done.

Labour don´t have enough talented people to make a huge impact and their election manifestos often seem to be confusing as they are not sure whether they are a workers party or not. Irish people traditionally have not voted left wing parties into power as we never had a big enough working class for a critical mass of voters to elect left wing candidates.

We Irish don´t think along right wing and left wing lines, we´ve had no history of a popular socialist movement here, Which I believe is to the countries detriment. If you look at other European countries the ones with the best infrastructure, in the main, are the ones that have had socialist governments at various times in their past.

The main policies I feel a new party would need would be

1) Cut government waste. The sheer amount of money wasted in this country is horriffic, It seems every decision made by the last government had to be passed to a new agency to be implemented, these often share common ground with other, pre-existing agencies and many could be merged with resultant cost savings, part of this is due to the excess of laws we have in this country (how many pieces of employment legislation do we have on the books?). We need to simplify the way this country is run, this would lead to cost savings and reduce the cost of doing business which leads us to....

2) Create Jobs. Job creation doesn´t seem to be a priority with the current government. FAS is overly expensive and could be merged with the IDA. We must have at least 5 or 6 agencies in this country concerned with "Jobs" (FAS, Enterprise Ireland, Shannon Development, The IDA, Forbairt etc) and none of them seem to work that well. Merge them all and have one agency with a smaller budget to focus on the areas where we can create sustainable jobs (Agri Business for example, We have some of the best food in the world. Compare the Milk, Beef & Butter you get here to that you get anywhere else in the world, the quality is miles better, We should be shouting this sort of thing from the roof tops!). The governments current job creation policy seems to be to wait until the rest of the world improves and ship our unemployment problem overseas. This is exactly the policy which means our best and brightest leaves and creates wealth in other countries. This policy ruined the country in the 1980´s and will do so again if allowed to continue.

I could go on but this is turning into a book. I truly believe that the time has come for people who take an interest in these issues to stop standing on the sidelines and act. There must be plenty of people who take an active part in their communities and want to see things get better. If we want this country to get better then we have to work at it.

I´m serious in starting a new party to reform this country we have and agitate for some common sense in government, I genuinely would not want to live anywhere else. Lets try get the right people in government (local and national) for a change!