Guess who's back?
Well it wouldn't be New Labour without Ali. The Sindie reckons he's back on the payroll heading a "dirty tricks" unit.
The main problem with this story is that Ali didn't invent the allegations about Major. It all came out of an FT investigation that attempted to use the FoI to get info about what really happened on Black Monday. Don't these people read the papers?!
The main problem with this story is that Ali didn't invent the allegations about Major. It all came out of an FT investigation that attempted to use the FoI to get info about what really happened on Black Monday. Don't these people read the papers?!
posted by UK plc at 12:03 AM
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Black wednesday has been excavated in a most bizarre way. It seems evident that Major fell victim to having backed the wrong horse when, as Chancellor, he joined the ERM. There is no good reason to doubt his integrity in standing firmly behind the ERM right up to the collapse, believing, correctly I think, that by that point this was the best action to provide a possibility of averting disaster. Wavering was not going to help. To try to highlight Tory economic mismanagement by concentrating on allegations of mispropriety at that point is quite ridiculous. As such, it is quite obvious that Labour are exploiting a sleazy angle because it gets the issue in the papers. All a bit rich from an administration which has just recieved a £610 billion bill as a result of screwing up the foot and mouth compensation system.
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I think the parrallels with the Delian League are interesting because they are so remarkably close, and the hubristic end to that tale suggests how the current international situation may unfold. If the same pattern is followed (competing claims to hegemony from various aggregates [Russia, Europe, the arab states, perhaps], followed by the rise and eventual domination of a powerful but ignored isolationist state [China?]) the end result will not be pretty for "Western Democracy." This should be of some concern to us.
Next, if we are seeing "structural features of a democracy": What are these structures? How can they be discerned? On what do they depend? How do they reproduce?
I would take a great deal of convincing about that idea, and would need you to suggest the impact of these structures on various other democratic systems. It seems to me that this exertion of foreign control, which is something like, but not quite, Empire, is the most important common feature. If it were democracy, how can, for example, Gaullism, have seemingly avoided these pitfalls?
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