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Tory Technocracy Set to Fumble Before It Begins

• http://www.thedailybell.com

Dominant Social Theme: What we need mostly is wise leaders, not party politics.

Free-Market Analysis: The technocracy meme constantly reemerges. In this case we know why. UKIP, the quasi-libertarian, anti-EU party, is emerging as a potential political winner and many in British leadership are aghast.

Solution? Combine forces. This is an idea constantly being propounded on both sides of the pond. Bloomberg himself – of Bloomberg media – is a big proponent of electing the best "leader" not a party representative. So is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

This approach grants that regulatory democracy itself is appropriate as is, with all its complexity and monopoly mercantilism. The idea is that the "solutions" merely need to be refined, and this can be done by the "best man" of either party.

Here's more:

What if the coin lands on its side?

When the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government after the last general election, it was assumed to be a short-term hiatus before the decades-long duel between the Tories and Labour resumed. But the share of the vote commanded by these two parties has eroded to such an extent that coalitions may now be a fact of British political life. Indeed, things have become so bad that a previously unthinkable possibility is beginning to raise its head: the Conservatives and Labour might be forced – for the good of the country – to go into coalition with each other.


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