I agree with you about the lack of fairness of our existing system but what is a practical solution just for our country when the rest of the world continues down that road? I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination but at nearly retirement age I've got all I need and don't want to risk losing it through major upheavals.AndrewJB wrote:Lancaster - I have gone very much the other way too, but is it really surprising? All of what you might call 'neo liberal' economics has been shown up to be a sham that works against the vast majority of people. The failure of trickle-down economics, mass privatisation of public assets, the use of public debt to cut spending on education, health, and public services, the use of unemployment to keep wages down, and working people nervous, and that silly belief in 'market forces' as though it's a magical fairy that must never be caged, when it's often rigged anyway. All of this is so apparent now - I mean we've had nearly two generations of practical experience of it - that few thinking people believe it any more. It's been so entrenched as a dominant ideology that anyone questioning it is still labelled as 'extreme' - but is it really 'left-wing' to question something that clearly doesn't work, or is 'it' actually becoming more extreme (resistant to evidence against it for example), as its failures such as the international banking crisis get money thrown at it like a giant sticking plaster?
One other possible reason for this election was mentioned by an MP on a TV interview. It was that if the current government went its full term, the next General Election would be May 2020 and he argued that this was close to the theoretical end of Brexit negotiations. He thought some naughty EU representatives might force a weaker UK outcome because they knew that it would all need to be sorted by then.
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