Future of the European Union

[Furunculus]

This "process" has led to the creation of an inefficient, zombie-like UK industry in the 1960s / 70s and the consequent hollowing out in the 1980s and 1990s. No decisions made on pension reform for decades - tackling final salaries for baby boomers was a problem that could be foreseen for the last 40 years or so. New Labour's massive PFI off the books debt; devolution but no review of the Barnett formula and so on and so on.

The UK might lurch along in spite of the many inefficiencies of the political system we have but again we either seem to have no long term strategy - either more of the same or diametrically opposite - caused by our dreadful first past the post system at all levels in England and with local representatives also being the national representative. It is almost designed to ensure politicians have long, stable careers more than react to what locals want... except with a massive shift when "the other lot" get complete power and begin working.

I agree that other parts of the system help in improving how this functions.

i'm not at at sure what you say is true, unless your point is confined to a specific part of the system, and not the wider process i allude to.

we have - perhaps by accident - built constructive dissent into the system in a way that i think is missing in many consensusal political systems:

https://qz.com/1269977/a-berkeley-pr...troublemakers/