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| Over the past 60 years, along with some
58 million other subjects of Her Majesty, you've sat quietly while the UK
has become the fiefdom* of numerous factions that have just one thing in
common: they are all minorities. The nadir of "democracy" in the British Isles occurred at the 2005 General Election, when despite polling a considerable minority of English votes, one party was awarded the majority of English seats! The conundrum of the 2010 result has moved the game olong quite considerably, and whilst on the face of it we have a unique moment of "majority" government, the UK is now transparently and officially the fiefdom of two minorities. |
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So if this is to be the future, then maybe the only answer is to adopt a more transparent policy where referendums/referenda (you pick) become the way ahead for all major decisions. The alternative of this ultimate coalition of minorities (ie every one of us) may be that uneasy coalitions will collapse at the first testing moment. Although our archaic voting system is little changes since the days of Dick Turpin, the reality is that technology makes this trivial, as TV shows have proved. There are many interesting times ahead. |
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| *fiefdom: Function: noun Etymology: French, from Old French -- more at FEE 1 : a feudal estate : FEE 2 : something over which one has rights or exercises control <a politician's fief> |
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