August 2011

Seeing like a Belgian province

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 28/08/2011 - 17:55

A common argument for the Conservative-Liberal coalition back in May, 2010 was that any alternative government would be hopelessly weak and unstable. Oddly, the coalition itself tended to argue both that the country needed a balanced parliament that would represent a broad consensus of opinion, and also that the country needed a strong government that would be able to do what it saw fit. Taken together, this suggested that they wanted sweeping powers to do nothing that would be at all controversial.

Twat Madrassa Latest - Uniform Mediocrity

Submitted by Tom on Mon, 15/08/2011 - 21:09

From the West London Free School Prospectus (full of suspiciously clean well uniformed kids in WLFS school uniform, which is a bit odd considering there aren't any WLFS pupils yet, so one concludes it's a straight PR job):

* These items must be purchased from our uniform supplier.

Out of Cops Error

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 14/08/2011 - 16:17

Who is advising David Cameron on policing? Surely not the police.

Key Theme: Coalition vs. Government

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 14/08/2011 - 16:34

Thinking about that last post, it strikes me that the biggest dividing line in Coalition politics isn't Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, or even Coalition vs. Opposition, it's Coalition vs. Government.

This is what politics is like when the people in charge don't have a culture of government. It's not the same thing as being fundamentally opposed to it, or contemptuous of it, like the Bush administration - it's as if we were governed by people who had never actually seen a government, only heard one described, perhaps in a rather poor translation.