With Blair, the British Citizen has rapidly become an irrelevance - it's his nastiness and deplorable fantasy in action. At 79, I won't see the results, but as the diminutive Burnham is about to wreck the UK even further, I may well be having to sharpen my rather rusted pitchfork in one last gamble.
Scrobs - I don't think I'll see the results either and no doubt our grandkids will adapt because they will have to. Voters have to take much of the blame too though, dumping entire political parties was always achievable.
Too many voters have been brought up with 'liberal progressive philosophy'. Hence their voting for the Lib Dems and receiving the Piddington plans. They voted for it and now they're objecting to getting it.
Tammly - it's a puzzle too, by now voters should have some notion that voting for the legacy parties won't deliver anything but more decline. Not that it ever did.
James - yes, good nature can feel like a hindrance at times.
It's a story that has been playing out for centuries... the collective society versus the individual. It's coming to a head now that the Collective (large C) has wrapped itself in progress robes, along with the concept that a bigger collective (the EU, Globalism) means bigger progress. A difficult argument to rebut.
Except the limits of the collective are showing cracks where technocratic control is seen as more and more inadequate. Hence Brexit, Trump, Reform, AfD and so on.
DJ - yes, much of the problem seems to be associated with denser populations, better communication, mass communication and mass propaganda which seems to be an inevitable aspect of the technology.
Where the cracks come from seems more complex, but complexity itself could be an issue as we still appear to have a yearning for old ideals of the simple life, whatever it might be.
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With Blair, the British Citizen has rapidly become an irrelevance - it's his nastiness and deplorable fantasy in action. At 79, I won't see the results, but as the diminutive Burnham is about to wreck the UK even further, I may well be having to sharpen my rather rusted pitchfork in one last gamble.
Scrobs - I don't think I'll see the results either and no doubt our grandkids will adapt because they will have to. Voters have to take much of the blame too though, dumping entire political parties was always achievable.
Too many voters have been brought up with 'liberal progressive philosophy'. Hence their voting for the Lib Dems and receiving the Piddington plans. They voted for it and now they're objecting to getting it.
Oh how I longed to string Andy Starmer up from a lamp post.
Playing on our good nature, lying through their teeth.
Tammly - it's a puzzle too, by now voters should have some notion that voting for the legacy parties won't deliver anything but more decline. Not that it ever did.
James - yes, good nature can feel like a hindrance at times.
It's a story that has been playing out for centuries... the collective society versus the individual. It's coming to a head now that the Collective (large C) has wrapped itself in progress robes, along with the concept that a bigger collective (the EU, Globalism) means bigger progress. A difficult argument to rebut.
Except the limits of the collective are showing cracks where technocratic control is seen as more and more inadequate. Hence Brexit, Trump, Reform, AfD and so on.
DJ - yes, much of the problem seems to be associated with denser populations, better communication, mass communication and mass propaganda which seems to be an inevitable aspect of the technology.
Where the cracks come from seems more complex, but complexity itself could be an issue as we still appear to have a yearning for old ideals of the simple life, whatever it might be.
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