I have an idea. Any time a politician wishes to make a pledge - it goes into a register alongside a personal punishment if broken (sacking, substantial fine, etc) No agreed register entry? The pledge is not official. The terms of the pledge are written in a contractual way...
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...and the Register is overseen by an arms-length body. This way, a pledge has legal & contractual meaning, clear to the public. The severity of the punishment chosen indicates the seriousness of their commitment. This is how politicians could be held genuinely to account.
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So, should politicians make no entries here, it can clearly be said that any pledges or promises - however earnestly expressed - are non-committal in the most obvious way. And for promises broken on the register, there is not only punishment per se - it becomes legal record.
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It’s a formula Mike, tried & tested to do exactly that, lose public faith & interest. It’s a sly middle finger. Then they can really stick the knife in while everyone ignores them. We should never stop objecting & informing.. well, those of us who never believed the Tory lies.pic.twitter.com/khna8Otfi6
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This is an implicit recognition of the fact that BREXIT will reduce the size of the U.K. economy. They can lie all they like, but the economy will reveal the effects of Brexit.
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Mike - have you seen this by Prof Timothy Snyder on 'Sadopopulism' - how the oligarchs retain power by increasing hardship and so destroying belief in progress and driving social groups into a brutal zero-sum struggle for status and resources.https://youtu.be/oOjJtEkKMX4
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He was never going to end austerity, wait till after the transition period
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Austerity is genuinely over. The problem is we thought it would be replaced by something better; instead austerity has been replaced with abject poverty
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