As something of an aside but not completely incidentally, I'm just now returning from the first meeting of something called the Open Government Partnership http://www.opengovpartnership.org which is I gather, Barak Obama's (perhaps premature) attempt at providing a global legacy. Its first year was managed by the US and Brazil but now the UK (evidently with the direct support of PM David Cameron) has taken over the co-chairmanship. It is worth taking a look at this development as it is, I think the first time that "civil society" has been granted co-equivalence with national governments in a global mulitlateral initiative. I've blogged on this at http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/does-inclusion-matter-for-open-gove rnment-the-answer-is-very-much-indeed/ Best, M
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:08 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION; D & N Subject: Re: [Futurework] 48% consider moving from UK At 19:36 19/04/2012, Natalie wrote: ALMOST half of all Britons are "seriously considering" moving overseas, an exclusive survey for The Sun has found. Well, you know surveys. But perhaps a partial reflection of sentiments. Keith has no cause to relocate, right? I'm of an age and condition when I can't even locate out of the house I live in. If I were young and untrammelled I'm not at all sure where I'd fancy going to. I'd have to sleep on this one! However, I can well believe that almost half our population wants to leave the UK. Our governments, left or right, are fast becoming either corrupt or a joke. When you consider that our last two ex-prime ministers, Blair and Brown, hardly ever dare show their faces in public for fear of remonstrance, then this gives a measure of the demoralization of the last decade or so. But I don't believe that modern societies necessarily have to collapse completely, as the older, simpler ones did. As we were the first into the industrial revolution, maybe we are already leaving it and feeling our way into the next one. If so, then the next few decades could be very interesting and I'd certainly want to stay and observe it! Incidentally, the Sun is one of our trash newspapers, but its political editor, Trevor Kavanagh, is paradoxically one of the most perceptive journalists in the country. He always has his finger on the pulse. Keith http <http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4257682/48-of-Brits-want-to-g et-out-of-Britain-says-new-Sun-survey.html> ://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4257682/48-of-Brits-want-to-get-ou t-of-Britain-says-new-Sun-survey.html <http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4257682/48-of-Brits-want-to-g et-out-of-Britain-says-new-Sun-survey.html> _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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