Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Weak Signal's progress: Advanced

This Weak Signal came from: 
Interviews

The source of this Weak Signal: 
Ian PEARSON, "Futurizon", interviewed by "MIOIR".

Weak Signal's description: 

Many traditional techniques are clearly failing and many techniques used by politicians over the last few decades have made things much worse. There is a lot of frustration building up, people are wary of politicians and I think that is a weak signal pointing towards a major change in how we do politics . It is the same in many European countries – confidence in politics is dropping and pressure is building up for change. This is based on a lot of factors: pressures from immigration; conflicts in the religious world between East and West; conflicts on environmentalism; conflicts due to the increasing gap between generations in the population, as we have an increasingly large older population and the costs for these are going to be borne by the younger generation.