Quote of the day 14th October 2014

"The parallels between UKIP and the Tea Party are not perfect ...

 "But they are close enought to be worrying to anybody who cares about the future of British politics.

 "The Impact of the Tea Party in America has been overwhelmingly negative. For all its' reasonable anger at America's dysfunctional political system, it has made that system worse ...

 "The Tea Party has  ... made it almost impossible for politicians to address America's problems, with its' high octane rhetoric about sending immigrants back over the border and antics such as Senator Ted Cruz's attempt to shut down the government.

 "The lesson of the rise of the Tea Party is clear: for all the superficial appeal of its' anti-Washington rhetoric it makes dysfunctional politics more dysfunctional and sensible reform all but impossible. The British need to study the US example before it is too late."

(Adrian Wooldridge writing in The Sunday Times this week.)

Comments

Jim said…
The British did look at it, they looked hard, then they decided that the British system needed to change. They got together a mixture of people from medical doctors, to Researchers, to Chemical scientists, to Nuclear professionals, to council workers, to road side sweepers. and you know what, those real "leaders" Actually practiced democracy, and so a list of over 50 things that needed changing was reduced and intergrated into just 6.

8:45 pm
Jim said…
Nice to see Owen Patterson on the ball though.
8:57 pm
Jim said…
Should have linked to Owen Pattersons speech (sorry, my bad) anyway nice to see a politician with a sense of reality.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/owen-paterson/2014/10/owen-patersons-speech-on-abandoning-the-2050-climate-change-targets-full-text/
9:19 pm
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