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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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Labour need to rebuild the social contract. People need to see value in THEIR government and there should be mutual support. There needs to be an understanding of how we all contribute to the success of the nation.
When I say that I mean there is more to a country than it's economy, it's the people and how we support each other to be safe, happy and successful in what we choose to do.
Grumpy_Git
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.