RE: Interesting day17 Nov 2018 10:37
Enjoying catching up on the posts ... good stuff. I think there is a general acceptance that we.re in a reet mess for a multitude of reasons. Head on the blick time. I do think there should be another referendum ... with 2 Brexit options ...both formally agreed by the EU/Uk gov. The people can then vote with some knowledge of what they were actually voting for. When the historians look back on this they.ll wince at the procedural naivety and democratic implications ... we were lied to /ill-informed by politicians who knowingly (or not) played on our fears /hopes. I just dont want see a return to street riots, further poverty (I dont like the median based poverty calculation) and the rise of nationalism or similar in Britain. The police could not cope ( my social circle includes x2 Chief Supers)- the army would be reqd.
Aristotle:
"For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy, of the needy: none of them the common good of all. Tyranny, as I was saying, is monarchy exercising the rule of a master over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
Very apt ... which are we?