We are all living in Tony Blair World now, and he gifted us a Gordian Knot of judicial and bureaucratic conditions preventing any major political change. Part of the power of 'the Knot' is the understanding that it cannot be unpicked. Yet we have made some progress in unpicking the EU laws that still bind us - perhaps some hero will appear who can slice through the Gordian Knot?
"But political statements have become misleading in a deeper way, by being so frivolous with respect to matters of truth and falsehood that they almost actively create conditions of alienation and fantasy - bolstering the feeling amongst the population that they inhabit not so much a shared polity as a fragmented dreamscape."
A perfect summary of the embedding of slippery fantasies and official cop-outs, foisted on us by bloated, overpaid cohorts of technocratic management clones, masquerading as our representatives.
Much of what Sunak, Hunt, Starmer,Davey, the SNP and fellow travellers offer in the way of promises, promises bodes ill for any future recovery: the Rwanda saga is a costly political and legal football, bounced back and forth as the influx shows no sign of abating and thousands of young men are deposited in impoverished towns and small villages; the ECHR ruling on climate change will be welcomed by the Net Zero lobbyists and recent events at Holyrood fill me with despair: attempts to tepeal the dreadful Hate Crime Act failed yesterday.
To add to a growing sense of social malaise and frustrated anomie:
The Commissars are out in the open in Holyrood, whereas in Westminster, they hide behind verbal spats, Angela Rayner's tax affairs and righteous eruptions .
No, Sunak doesn't seem to recognise describing the issues in clear and accurate terms. In fact it is a long time since the Tories cared about anything other than somehow cobbling together another election win.
Of course parliament could pass a Bill removing Britain from the jurisdiction of the ECHR. (They won't, because parliament is full of careerist hacks and lobby fodder.) Removing us from the ECHR wouldn't end this fiasco, but it would be a truly great start.
It would need simply a manifesto commitment to do it, followed by the introduction of such a Bill. It wouldn't need any kind of clever master plan. But it would need a party to be elected that wasnt lined up with the Establishment soft left consensus. So that rules out both the Conservatives and Labour.
It is clear any future UK government that is serious about removing the influence of the ECHR and related stuff is going to have to have a comprehensive plan for how to do so while fighting both the civil service and the judiciary.
That's a tall order. It may be impossible. But without a plan it is clearly just bloviating.
Sunak is literally and figuratively a lightweight Blair, with no loyalty to nor interest in the future of Britain and its people. Aping Blair, bankrolled by Sunak’s and his wife’s phenomenal wealth, I wager next year there will a Sunak Institute for Global Peace (or similar such). This will allow him to exert power and influence across the world, utterly unencumbered by the tedium of elections and being accountable to the loathsome rubes that constitute the British people.
We are all living in Tony Blair World now, and he gifted us a Gordian Knot of judicial and bureaucratic conditions preventing any major political change. Part of the power of 'the Knot' is the understanding that it cannot be unpicked. Yet we have made some progress in unpicking the EU laws that still bind us - perhaps some hero will appear who can slice through the Gordian Knot?
"But political statements have become misleading in a deeper way, by being so frivolous with respect to matters of truth and falsehood that they almost actively create conditions of alienation and fantasy - bolstering the feeling amongst the population that they inhabit not so much a shared polity as a fragmented dreamscape."
A perfect summary of the embedding of slippery fantasies and official cop-outs, foisted on us by bloated, overpaid cohorts of technocratic management clones, masquerading as our representatives.
Much of what Sunak, Hunt, Starmer,Davey, the SNP and fellow travellers offer in the way of promises, promises bodes ill for any future recovery: the Rwanda saga is a costly political and legal football, bounced back and forth as the influx shows no sign of abating and thousands of young men are deposited in impoverished towns and small villages; the ECHR ruling on climate change will be welcomed by the Net Zero lobbyists and recent events at Holyrood fill me with despair: attempts to tepeal the dreadful Hate Crime Act failed yesterday.
To add to a growing sense of social malaise and frustrated anomie:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/scottish-primary-schools-appoint-children-as-lgbt-champions/ar-BB1lOmPm
The Commissars are out in the open in Holyrood, whereas in Westminster, they hide behind verbal spats, Angela Rayner's tax affairs and righteous eruptions .
No, Sunak doesn't seem to recognise describing the issues in clear and accurate terms. In fact it is a long time since the Tories cared about anything other than somehow cobbling together another election win.
Of course parliament could pass a Bill removing Britain from the jurisdiction of the ECHR. (They won't, because parliament is full of careerist hacks and lobby fodder.) Removing us from the ECHR wouldn't end this fiasco, but it would be a truly great start.
It would need simply a manifesto commitment to do it, followed by the introduction of such a Bill. It wouldn't need any kind of clever master plan. But it would need a party to be elected that wasnt lined up with the Establishment soft left consensus. So that rules out both the Conservatives and Labour.
It is clear any future UK government that is serious about removing the influence of the ECHR and related stuff is going to have to have a comprehensive plan for how to do so while fighting both the civil service and the judiciary.
That's a tall order. It may be impossible. But without a plan it is clearly just bloviating.
Evidently everything's worse than one imagined. Perhaps the only thing that could save us is an intelligent tyrant.
"Robert Caro, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson"
Not read it?
DO! Just the most superb - and longest - political biography of all time. Caro, in his 80s, is writing the fifth and final volume. Fingers crossed.
Sunak is literally and figuratively a lightweight Blair, with no loyalty to nor interest in the future of Britain and its people. Aping Blair, bankrolled by Sunak’s and his wife’s phenomenal wealth, I wager next year there will a Sunak Institute for Global Peace (or similar such). This will allow him to exert power and influence across the world, utterly unencumbered by the tedium of elections and being accountable to the loathsome rubes that constitute the British people.