Friday 15 July 2011

Where is the Power?

It strikes me as interesting that all around the world, people are holding their governments to account, challenging the unfettered political support for "free markets" that they feel have created inequality and impotence and are finally rising up against oppressive regimes. Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Greece, Spain, Portugal and others are not giving their political representatives an easy ride.

Here in the UK however, (and it would seem soon in the US,) we have first had to bring down a force so corrupt, so powerful and so all-pervading that it rendered even politicians impotent.

Here in the so called "free world" we must first wrestle freedom from our own unelected media dictator before we can even start to address the problems we face politically.

2 comments:

  1. 'challenging the unfettered political support for "free markets" that they feel have created inequality and impotence and are finally rising up against oppressive regimes. Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Greece, Spain, Portugal and others are not giving their political representatives an easy ride.'

    The problems in Greece, Spain and Portugal are that of people rising up against "free markets"? You really have no idea what is going on over there, do you? They had massively socialist governments that got too big and too large for their population to support. Now they are being forced into debt socialisation by an undemocratic, left wing, socialist supra-state that is over stepping its authority. They are not rising up against "free markets". Also the Arab spring countries would be wanting access to the "free markets" rather than their oppressive superstates..

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  2. Anonymous nonsense! If it is a banana, looks like a banana, tastes like a banana and behaves like a banana it is not an orange! The tin pot-dictators in North Africa and the Middle East may want to call their family dynasties 'socialist' - but they were never that - whatever titles they gave themselves. However, agreed, it will be important for those countries to experience so called 'free markets' so they can then move on to better things and the next stage of social and economic development. Do not underestimate the role and power of those using the internet who have derailed Murdoch. It is the equivalent of our Tahir moment. British Democracy for too long has been little more than a series of private conversations between Ministers, a few powerful elites and their pet journalists. It goes far beyond Murdoch and a few morally incompetent journalists.

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