Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
See, i think you think this is still about a virus with a 99.6% survival rate......I don't.....I think it's about how we are governed.

If it's not covid it will be something else.....nothing's going back to how it was, if govt don't do it, big business will do it for them.

I take it you never got the propaganda thru you're door today.
Correct assumption. Censored by the family! No need to get me wound up first thing in the morning. I am confident that how we are governed can be changed by the electorate. Who would have ever thought that a populist candidate like Donald Trump would get elected as President of the United States? He was such an outsider that even the Republicans could not believe that he would win. I am afraid the experiment didn't work largely because of the behaviour of Donald Trump himself but I don't think that where there is a two party system there is much danger to democracy.
Europe seems to me to be heading for trouble as populist policies will rely on nationalist tensions. As we see in Scotland a nationalist agenda is very effective in driving change forward. Boris used it himself to get Brexit done. My hope is that we Scots take a breather and wait to see what actually happens in Britain now that we are out of the EU. I think we are very pragmatic and we will not dash for independence and a return to the EU and I have more faith in our political system than I have in the current bunch of politicians.