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Unfortunately, I don't disagree with you :-(
The conduct of "democracy" in the UK is quite clearly broken (again, I strongly recommend Ian Dunt's book). It's also true that this is reflected elsewhere in the developed world. My caution, however, is that we should not simply be focused on what is happening now: the present is very important but we need to keep the longer term in perspective - and, indeed, 5 years may not even be a long enough period for us to consider, but it is at least a start. One of the major failures in recent years has been the lack of focus on longer term results/outcomes, with an extremely short termist view expressed in virtually all discussions of a political nature, be they by politicians, media or indeed in every day conversations. It's very depressing.
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Caused by populist politicians who have knowingly substituted campaigning for governing.
We would all benefit from less politics.
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My caution, however, is that we should not simply be focused on what is happening now: the present is very important but we need to keep the longer term in perspective
I completely agree with this and if labour have a massive majority hopefully they'll start to enact do it me policies with vision.
At the moment though there's no choice, we've had a government that has completely wrecked every public institution and service, isolated us from our closest trading neighbours and infected economic sanctions on its own population and destroyed trust in the political system.
If the far right gets back in there's not much else for them to destroy, I just hope people have seen the light and won't be conned back into the shit again (you have to hope)
I moved to France at the end of last year, I honestly thought this bullshit was behind me for a bit, hopefully they can sort themselves out on Sunday and figure out a way of bringing the country back together.
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One of the major failures in recent years has been the lack of focus on longer term results/outcomes, with an extremely short termist view expressed in virtually all discussions of a political nature, be they by politicians, media or indeed in every day conversations. It's very depressing.
Very much this. However much Starmer is not what some people want from a Labour leader, hopefully there will some actual governing for the medium/long term good of the country and an irrelevant Tory/Reform platform such that they can be ignored.
But I do worry that the US gives a glimpse into the future where that is what Biden has largely done, to the detriment of ignoring Trump and what he did/will do to break the democratic system there. And the good Biden has done for people/the economy is drowned out by culture-war shrieking. Ugh. So depressing.
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villa-ru
It's funny how you can worry about 5 years time when the tory Party have already been completely overrun by the far right.
To say what's happening in France and other parts of Europe has missed the boat. It's happened already and we're already fucked.