tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post4585390679330729587..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Employing Representatives: How Limiting MPs Pay Rises Increases The Democratic Deficit.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-33793964010361757362015-03-07T14:27:48.833+13:002015-03-07T14:27:48.833+13:00Contempt for politicians is not new at all. You kn...Contempt for politicians is not new at all. You know that. It's thousands of years old and part of the job description. It comes and goes too. It's East & West, left & right, demo & dictator. Pity there is not more of it in Russia today of the national socialist criminal Putin junta.<br />But I agree it has worsened in your life time, yet just as much because of the left as the right. You see again, your specs tint everything you perceive with your bias.<br />Contempt for pollies was the reason we got MMP, which followed Lange's lot doing things they were not elected for. And later the Treaty Machine was imposed on us, hardly democratic that disgrace.<br />In the UK you had Blair. No need to say more. A plague on both houses, yet what would be worse is slathering admiration for those in power, like in Russia. So similar to 1930s Germany.<br />Charles Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-47621323087986224332015-03-07T08:35:41.292+13:002015-03-07T08:35:41.292+13:00I think it's been shown that Douglas's ref...I think it's been shown that Douglas's reforms actually set the economy back rather than rescued it. There were countries that coped without scalping their economies and causing mass unemployment. So in the words of Adam Savage, "I reject your reality and substitute my own." :-)Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-47987912556852684132015-03-06T14:19:51.548+13:002015-03-06T14:19:51.548+13:00Obviously you havnt read any of Ridger Douglas'...Obviously you havnt read any of Ridger Douglas's books. He insists he was acting out of necessity to save us from the fate of Greece and Venezuela, bankruptcy and poverty caused by economic policies which had outlived the new reality of Britain joining the EU, the rise of asia and the collapse of the post war consensus of full employment budgets in a firestorm of stagflation. Economic reality not political choice drove Douglas. True he didnt need to do a that he did, true he is an idealogue - but the time of change was being driven by the stresses of the days. <br /><br />I think if anything contempt for our politicians must have been strengthened by the undemocratic buyout of mana by the rich german cash for clemency in the house of democracy - all the while cheered on by his greatest fan Chris Trotter the enemy of big money in politics, Trotter, Bradbury, Minto, Harre - all tainted by theyre willingness to sell democracy to the highest bidder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com