🌎🌏 The Fall of Western Hegemony and the Transition to a Multipolar World

[scotty]

@CB-Saint

Trouble is no one is allow to reform it

That’s what I’m saying, it’s impossible politically to reform it because the nation tends to believe it’s better than anyone else’s. In the same way, we also tend to believe that we have more freedom than anyone else, while citizens of other countries probably think they do.

[pap]

The NHS was fucked the minute the private interests were allowed to be re-involved.

My own personal view? Private sector is great for supply chain, where competition matters. It’s less great where competition doesn’t matter and it’s just being handed giant local monopolies.

[Cobham-Saint]

The amount of stuff and services being offloaded from the NHS to private companies is shocking- especially as it’s not improving service levels.

Money making machine for private investors.

YoungAdult#1 was involved in COVID-19 testing and the waste is unbelievable- in the inner city London NHS Trust she worked for the expensive testing lab kit and supplies are still sitting there with nobody taking responsibility for disposal.

It’s as if nobody in government want to take responsibility for disposing of it or selling it on. The kit could be used for many other things apparently.

[CB-Saint]

You could argue it was fucked from the very start when the doctors were allowed to keep their private practices

[Cobham-Saint]

This is true & GP surgeries are effectively private companies.

[CB-Saint]

I would love to have a run at a health trust - just to se if I could get the bastard to work - but if would just be a wave crashing against a rock. - utterly futile

[Polski_Filip]

Wrong.
Private sector focuses on last price, not on Service
And everyone gets fvcked

@pap

The NHS was fucked the minute the private interests were allowed to be re-involved.

My own personal view? Private sector is great for supply chain, where competition matters. It’s less great where competition doesn’t matter and it’s just being handed giant local monopolies.

[Not_Barry]

@pap

My overall point is that if you say what you’re not allowed to say, anywhere in the world, publicly, you’ll get fucked up.

That is what you want to believe to further your opinion, Colston 4 for example, we’re the best of a bad bunch, go live somewhere closer to your ideals, the fuck you will but have a go.

[Not_Barry]

@scotty

Like we all tend to believe that the NHS is the world’s best health system and the BBC is impartial.

The NHS principle is the best, tax in other nations to a far higher degree create better health services Australia and France for instance but they’re not comparable as they have higher taxes or a separate tax for that.
The BBC is funny as both the left and right says its biased so its pretty good to me then and when you lay the news out in black and white the tories in all ways look cunts so it can’t be dressed up.

[Not_Barry]

Less trusts more unified big state.

[pap]

I don’t need to believe anything to further an opinion.

I know a lot of things that would suggest that we have become a lot less free in legal terms over the past 30 years, the creme de la creme being the enabling act that Labour passed in 2008.

If we ever did get a totalitarian leader, he or she would have all the tools, in statute, to take us all the way.

[Not_Barry]

@pap

I know a lot of things that would suggest that we have become a lot less free in legal terms over the past 30 years, the creme de la creme being the enabling act that Labour passed in 2008.

I agree but we’re still the best of a bad bunch, you simply can’t stomach that fact.

[Not_Barry]

@pap

If we ever did get a totalitarian leader, he or she would have all the tools, in statute, to take us all the way.

Really? Then the monarchy would earn its keep Pap and keep them straight, did you forget that?

[Cobham-Saint]

@Not_Barry

Then the monarchy would earn its keep Pap and keep them straight, did you forget that?

How exactly?

[Not_Barry]

The monarchy can dissolve Parliament, they never have (in that situation) but they’ve never been required to.

[Cobham-Saint]

Any putative totalitarian “leader” would surely use all of the laws on the current statute book, plus surreptitiously add to them to ensure their aims weren’t thwarted.

I know everyone thinks the monarchy still holds power to dissolve parliament, but in the face of a power hungry regime that flouts the normal rules of “democracy” as described above I’m not too sure the Queen would be left in a position to do so.

[Not_Barry]

Parliament is dissolved all the time for elections, the monarchy wouldn’t want to be involved in a constitutional crisis but they could, I doubt it would happen.
The republicans will be in right moral quandary as they’d be forced to swallow something they find abhorrent or they’d risk more Boris Johnson.
And no tory no matter how libertarian would ever in a million years go against the wishes of the Royal Family.
They’d lose the next 10 elections for the being the republican party.

[pap]

I’m sorry but is that really the level of our moral ambition?

Best of a bad bunch?

You illustrate succinctly everything that is wrong with the world. The pitch we play on is bad. We’re the best players on that pitch.

Wouldn’t be comforting even if it was true.

[Not_Barry]

No Pap its a reality, one you can’t seem to grasp.

I suggest you move somewhere better.

[Cobham-Saint]

You seem to have an issue with Republicans, but my comments were more hypothetical than applying to the current political situation.

Johnson tried to take a leaf out of the Trump playbook (the ladybird version) and has come out just as badly as Tango-Man

Perhaps Johnson had ideas along these lines?

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