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Saving democracy

I have a suggestion that elaborates on what I did last night. It is that those who support democracy have to act to deliver it, working in cooperation to do so. They should demand from their politicians:

An agreement on a new economic settlement – that we will promote full employment, the meeting of need and the delivery a climate transition within a framework designed to deliver that goal;

That is, we’ll save democracy by insisting that the base economic structure can never be challenged by the result of an election.

Agreement to enhance accountability so that never again can a party, a person or a government hold the country to ransom to support the interests of a few at cost to the many;

Ditto – what the folks vote to be gimps for the tories?

Ho Hum

10 thoughts on “Saving democracy”

  1. What’s hilarious about this is that practically all of the 14 criticisms he cites at the event he attended in the West Country last night with the equally horrific Molly Scott Cato is that they could all be levelled quite justifiably at the Greens – for those unfamiliar with the ‘14 conditions of fascism’, they are:

    1. The cult of tradition
    2. Rejection of modernism
    3. cult of action for action’s sake
    4. Disagreement is treason
    5. Fear of Difference
    6. Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class
    7. Obsession with a ‘Plot’
    8. Enemies being simultaneously too strong and too weak
    9. Life is permanent warfare
    10. Contempt for the weak
    11. Everybody is educated to become a hero
    12. Machismo
    13. Selective populism
    14. Newspeak

    I’d argue you could switch the 10. And 12. To ‘contempt for the ordinary person’ and ‘Hatred of heterosexual men’ and you’d have Murphy’s ideology nailed. That he is unaware of that fact shows. Level of intellectual sophistication befitting someone four decades younger.

  2. He is the Charles Pooter for whom no one feels affection; and the Roderick Spode without a base of popular support.

  3. Hey guys! Part two is pretty much what Ted Heath asked for – the NUM should not hold the country to ransom. Sadly (whatever you may think of Ted Heath, we now know that Denis Healey was far worse) he got fewer seats despite more votes than Wilson and Thorpe handed power to Harold Will Soon.
    Does Murphy know that he’s advocating support for Ted Heath?

  4. Secondly SuperMac is the only PM who has produced full employment – and he did so while meeting need better than any Labour government in history. Climate change wasn’t an issue then – the doomsayers were talking about the next ice age.
    Does Murphy know that? Does he care?

  5. Harry Haddock's Ghost

    I repeat: he’s not just conceited, ignorant and stupid, he suffers from some flavour of insanity

    I don’t know if you are being serious, Dearime, but I genuinely believe this is the case, and we should leave him alone with his demons.

    I know it’s fun poking the fat kid with a stick, but it isn’t nice.

  6. As HHG says, the poor fellow is quite obviously a few coins short of a pound and unaware of his own shortcomings.
    He could retire on the pensions from his 3 prof-ships; then he’d have time to learn English, or even how to write coherently.

  7. He could retire on the pensions from his 3 prof-ships

    Weren’t they all adjunct “professorships” (ie, non-pensionable visiting-teaboy status)?

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