The short walk to democracy 109
Posted on
June 21, 2014 by
Chris Cairns
(Story, just in case you missed it in this week’s media “cybernat” horror orgy.)
The death of the social contract 78
Posted on
November 09, 2013 by
Scott Minto
The raison d’être of a government is to act in the interests of their populace, yet there’s a widespread perception that they instead now exist solely to serve the political and corporate elite, sometimes with not even lip service paid to the wishes of the public.
It’s a perception backed up by hard fact in the form of opinion polls, which demonstrate that the clearly-expressed desires of the electorate are regularly ignored by all parties in favour of blind ideology, cuts to services the public value, and tax breaks for those who don’t need them.
Whoever’s in power, the assets of the nation are sold off against the will of the people, in the name of a private-sector market ideology, for the short-term profit of wealthy City speculators, and for the benefit of other countries who ironically often end up running British industries as (foreign) state-owned public enterprises.
This happens because the votes of most of the electorate don’t count for anything.
