Without a time signature I’m not going to watch an over hour long university lecture. I have enough studying to do as it is in my own topic, let alone do so for a bullshit internet exchange.
As long as the general public ™ has no believable leverage that politicians need to take into account
That leverage is multiple parties. That leverage is the 3rd, 4th, or 5th option. Competition. The very thing that was said to keep capitalism in check. The one major regulation to keep capitalism trundling along was supposed to be no monopolies. And yet, you believe, that a duopoly of politics is a good thing. A duopoly over every facet of life.
“The SNP are on a dangerous tack at the moment,” he said. “What they are doing is trying to build up a situation in Scotland where the services are manifestly better than south of the Border in a number of areas.”
A clearly bemused MacKay responded with the obvious question: “Is this such a bad thing?”
“No,” replied George Lord, “but they are doing it deliberately.”
Whatever does the SNP government think it’s doing? Wantonly putting forward policies that might improve the lives of Scotland’s people? It will never catch on – not according to George Foulkes anyway.
Does that sound like there’s a lack of money for schools and healthcare in Scotland? Well, kind of, there is, but that’s due to Scottish funding being linked to a thing called the Barnett Formula which comes from Westminster which is outside the remit of this exchange. But the point is, despite squeezed funds coming from Westminster Holyrood still manage to fund our schools and healthcare significantly better than those south of the border. That’s also with the added difficulty of a sparsely populated country and more extreme weather.
1 party has total control and can do as it wishes. 2 parties have near total control and understand that they’ll get 5-10 years to do as they wish and then it’ll switch and this merry-go-round of power exchange will go on and on. In a multi party system there’s no guarantee of power. There’s dialogue, compromise, intellectual debate rather than ad hominems and posturing, and common ground found.
We have better funded healthcare, better funded schools, nationally owned railways, nationally owned water, the right to roam, a more sociological approach to crime and justice, and a fairer income tax system all because of a multi party system.
Two party systems are fundamentally unrepresentative and undemocratic.
Without a time signature I’m not going to watch an over hour long university lecture. I have enough studying to do as it is in my own topic, let alone do so for a bullshit internet exchange.
That leverage is multiple parties. That leverage is the 3rd, 4th, or 5th option. Competition. The very thing that was said to keep capitalism in check. The one major regulation to keep capitalism trundling along was supposed to be no monopolies. And yet, you believe, that a duopoly of politics is a good thing. A duopoly over every facet of life.
Does that sound like there’s a lack of money for schools and healthcare in Scotland? Well, kind of, there is, but that’s due to Scottish funding being linked to a thing called the Barnett Formula which comes from Westminster which is outside the remit of this exchange. But the point is, despite squeezed funds coming from Westminster Holyrood still manage to fund our schools and healthcare significantly better than those south of the border. That’s also with the added difficulty of a sparsely populated country and more extreme weather.
1 party has total control and can do as it wishes. 2 parties have near total control and understand that they’ll get 5-10 years to do as they wish and then it’ll switch and this merry-go-round of power exchange will go on and on. In a multi party system there’s no guarantee of power. There’s dialogue, compromise, intellectual debate rather than ad hominems and posturing, and common ground found.
We have better funded healthcare, better funded schools, nationally owned railways, nationally owned water, the right to roam, a more sociological approach to crime and justice, and a fairer income tax system all because of a multi party system.
Two party systems are fundamentally unrepresentative and undemocratic.
Quote source:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/the-diary-2508490