Monday, June 08, 2009
EU Voting
Some consequences seem to have come out of the EU voting. IMO:
1. Gordon Brown, despite low polling and indifferent/unfavorable voting for Labor, will stay as PM for the moment.
2. This suggests that a roughly "Brownite" or mildly socialist regime will continue to run UK for awhile, as compared to the even more "Thatcherite" Blairite regime. Neither of these groups are socialist though the rather North Korean approach of the CPI (Marxists) remains in the UK. That is not true socialism in the sense of say Atlee and will not win Labor voters IMO. Public/private/partnerships are seen as largely a hamfisted failure.
3. But this strange mildly Thatcherite regime may hold till the end of the term. This would mean no early general election after all. Does it matter ? An early general election would have got the Tories back in office quicker, and allowed them to give what the voting public clearly want and should have - a referendum on Europe - which Cameron would not want to give them, and would probably go on lying about. We would possibly fail to get the referendum anyway as none of the major three parties are acting in anything but personal self-interest.
4. Are we solving the depression problems ? On present circumstances, no, and GM for example will run into more serious problems in 2 to 3 years or slightly longer. For example, with the GM pension plan. The depression in the Western world will run in a cyclical fashion, but who can say as to the lengths of the cycles.
5. Can anything be done? Well, Australia and Canada would not have had these expenses problems, as they already have some checks and balances. The UK can easily resolve the problem, I could design a simple road map and there are very easy ways to allow more transparency, surveillance of Government activities (using TV and many other methods) and direct public participation, actually way beyond the current status of Canada and Australia, which both have the hallmarks of democracy and freedom, unlike UK. But the 3 major UK parties simply want to keep the status quo and to make only a small amount of improvement as an attempted sop to the public, probably a minimum amount of improvement in the case of Labor and Tory parties at least.
1. Gordon Brown, despite low polling and indifferent/unfavorable voting for Labor, will stay as PM for the moment.
2. This suggests that a roughly "Brownite" or mildly socialist regime will continue to run UK for awhile, as compared to the even more "Thatcherite" Blairite regime. Neither of these groups are socialist though the rather North Korean approach of the CPI (Marxists) remains in the UK. That is not true socialism in the sense of say Atlee and will not win Labor voters IMO. Public/private/partnerships are seen as largely a hamfisted failure.
3. But this strange mildly Thatcherite regime may hold till the end of the term. This would mean no early general election after all. Does it matter ? An early general election would have got the Tories back in office quicker, and allowed them to give what the voting public clearly want and should have - a referendum on Europe - which Cameron would not want to give them, and would probably go on lying about. We would possibly fail to get the referendum anyway as none of the major three parties are acting in anything but personal self-interest.
4. Are we solving the depression problems ? On present circumstances, no, and GM for example will run into more serious problems in 2 to 3 years or slightly longer. For example, with the GM pension plan. The depression in the Western world will run in a cyclical fashion, but who can say as to the lengths of the cycles.
5. Can anything be done? Well, Australia and Canada would not have had these expenses problems, as they already have some checks and balances. The UK can easily resolve the problem, I could design a simple road map and there are very easy ways to allow more transparency, surveillance of Government activities (using TV and many other methods) and direct public participation, actually way beyond the current status of Canada and Australia, which both have the hallmarks of democracy and freedom, unlike UK. But the 3 major UK parties simply want to keep the status quo and to make only a small amount of improvement as an attempted sop to the public, probably a minimum amount of improvement in the case of Labor and Tory parties at least.
# posted by uv : 8:34 PM
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