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Richard G Chapman's avatar

< “The political class is in terminal decline” >

The political class being in terminal decline is probably a symptom of the UK being in terminal decline; not the other way around.

I’d say the UK has been in terminal decline since globalisation took a hold decades ago; since it became uncompetitive as a manufacturing base and as a provider of natural resource.

GDP is considered the main yardstick for economic success when Balance of Payments should have been. Balance of Payments has been overwhelmingly in deficit since the 1970s when globalisation made its debut.

If the political class’s allowance of mass immigration was supposed to turn the UK’s fortunes as measured by GDP it was allowed as an act of sheer desperation.

What needs to be done by politicians to improve the UK’s economy is to turn Balance of Payments from being in deficit to being in a healthy excess.

How’s that going to happen?

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!

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NuclearBadger's avatar

While there is much to applaud in this analysis, there is far more missed.

The political class (is, if worse) a product of the media commenteriat, you get the politicians that the media demands.

Years ago politicians sat down for long format interviews where they would interrogate ministers and PM's over policy and what the pitfalls were and how they would manage them.

Political interviews now are 5 minutes, and have to be stuffed with soundbites and gotcha questions and is more concerned with bringing down politicians than genuinely tying to interogate for the benefit of the public.

Fundamentally politics and the politicians will not get better until our utterly puerile media class of lefty luvvy's are removed, and we get serious journalism for the people.

News is not news, once upon a time you got what the PM said and what the leader of the opposition said and the public made their own minds up as to what to make of it, now its ruled by biased news presenters, biased producers who select the stories and then try to weave their political views over it.

A classic case was Partygate, 7 months for one FPN for a surprise birthday cake in 9 mins between two official meetings brings down a PM

Its absolute madness, its the media driving the failure of politics here, as we seen with the utter bias from the MSM over Brexit which likely caused the MSM to try and find something as trivial as a birthday cake to bring a PM down over.

You can look for causes, but unless you get to root causes, nothing will change

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