The UK now has coalition government - we might call it ConDem(n), One wants to see some kind of success, beyond the honeymoon period, Currently, it's a relief not to have Nulabour (possibly a place near Ulan Bator) drones churning out denials under phoney positive spin. Nulabour had become functionally Stalinist without the blood-lust. We will no doubt discover they have fiddled the books, though the extent of this may never be known despite bringing in independent audit. My own belief is that it may be so bad we should have joined the Euro so we could ask the kindly Germans to bail us out.
Currently, we are being promised a referendum on proportional representation - this should happen next year, not become subject to delay. A tough budget is coming soon. I would prefer Angela Merkel did this and put in some bwanker-screwing. It would be good if this wasn't a typical 'new CEO' blaming the old regime thing. Utter crud like police targets are being scrapped, but we have no plan to really make things better. After this stuff, which looks like typical flim-flam, I have heard nothing about how we will change practice. In the background, our Parliament is still full of vested interest, public school products and the same old, same old. More people voted against the Speaker than for him in the public vote, yet MPs elected him unopposed. Some expense scandal creep has been re-elected because we were not told of his impending arrest. All the arguments remain at bulldung- undergraduate levels, and no one is really engaging public debate. How long before this lot become as vile as the Tories after 18 years and Nulabour after 13? Both these governments turned the instruments of power against the people through performance management and spin,and the leaders all played this childish game to the hilt. How long before this lot start denying reality and play games through lying statistics, the legal and media systems and blaming the last administration? How long before we (as the Big Society) get blamed?
