I can get hold of drugs for you igor. You'd need to drive down to Birmingham mind. 

Now you know.

The country has always either been in a mess or enjoying a period of prosperity that gets out of hand and tilts us over into another mess. No government is in power long enough to influence the complex economics of a country, never mind one that is part of a global economy - and that's assuming that anyone could even understand such an environment.

I would rather have principled people in power but because we are now obsessed with soundbytes and how their hair looks we only get the dickheads who are stupid enough to want to work in that environment. None of them are prepared to speak their mind or be in a situation that isn't stage managed - I wouldn't recognise more than a handful of them anymore becuase they are, in the majority, a bunch of fecking lightweight no-marks. Our politicans should be allowed to screw who they want and make mistakes because in the large scheme of it all and in all but a small number of positions (say national security) it doesn't make a blind bit of difference.

Actually fuck it, I want global federalism. That New World Order thing the kooks are always arming themselves with night-vision scopes and Krav Maga classes against.

I'd have thought not even slightly.

Yossarian wrote:

I'd have thought not even slightly.

Indeed - not with global companies, political compromises and bounded rationality in the way.

Thing that will always raise my eyebrow are the limits of free-market trumpeting. It's rare that you'll come across anyone advocating total labour market de-regulation, as far as entirely liberalised immigration to get cheaper workers over here, for instance. As much as politics can be accused of meddling, 'the market' is a sociopolitical construct.