pete75 wrote: ↑7 Dec 2022, 4:59pm
Psamathe wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 4:18pm
NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑25 Oct 2022, 11:46pm
Hi,
Havent read all the posts.........none actually.
So what would a hung parliment acheive...................................
More chaos
Are we so sure that the fickle voting plebs will just go "A change is as good as a rest"..........."change for change's sake"....................
You might as well toss a coin................
My hope for a hung Parliament would be more compromise and stopping the more extreme edges of different parties implementing their radical/extreme ideologies.
Ian
What's wrong with radical policies if they're successful in achieving desirable outcomes?
It's a big "if" as "radical" generally means untried and untested.
The economic and social policies writ by government as law are notorious for generating unintended consequences, as their subject matter is usually very complex, with changes having all sorts of unforeseen knock-on effects. In addition, there's the bad habit of those writing new law to make if over-complex, obscure, ambiguous and inclusive of various implementations in some circumstances that were not foreseen but which, when they come up, have deleterious consequences.
However, some polities, including that we now inhabit, become so badly disorganised or corrupt that "radical" might have less unintended or unwanted consequences than the current dog's breakfast of a polity we have now. If the current situation in broken Britain is left to fester, we'll soon be a third world country or a failed state, with lots dying of neglect as others roam about in a highly lawless fashion.
So, bring on "radical"; but not Tory-radical, which seems to consist in more of the reactionary bigotry rendered as even more laws to privileg their new model aristocracy at the cost of trashing everything and everyone else. Bring on the Starmer, with some proper radical. Just watch out for the unexploded consequences as you remake things, not to mention the cliff edges, slippery slopes and highly reactive human "substances", not least those in The City and mass media, energised by the catalyst of the unfamiliar.
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Personally I'd begin by looking at successful polices of our past, other nations and those that require little change for large results.
An example might be the revival of council house building and renting like that of the post-war years, with the necessary powers, finance and standards to produce well-built eco houses that can be offered at affordable rents (i.e. without profit being made) and with supporting services such as doctors, shops, pubs, schools, public transport and all the rest built in. If we could, as a nation, manage to make all that in 1945-55, despite the war debt and degradation of everything under the bomb, why not now?
I'm sure there are other examples of successful past policies that could be revived and modernised for current conditions that would "achieve desirable outcomes".
Cugel
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes