campaign against feral elite

[ecuworrier]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/31/public-jury-campaign-feral-elite

led by Philip Pullman... the list of celebs is pretty familiar but is Philip P the best person to er lead the revolt?

this looks a bit of a publicity stunt but is this the best opposition can do?

what do folks think about the idea of a campaign to right the wrongs of public standards or the emphasis of 'the public good'...? do you agree that politicians high office and business and just plain ol' egocentrism need to be reigned in ... or do you perhaps think that the notion of 'feral elite' is overegged...

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[AndyHB]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/31/public-jury-campaign-feral-elite

led by Philip Pullman... the list of celebs is pretty familiar but is Philip P the best person to er lead the revolt?

this looks a bit of a publicity stunt but is this the best opposition can do?

If this is the best the opposition can do, then i think they have got a long way to go.  Philip Pullman is probably not the best person to be leading such a campaign, if only because he - rather like the politicos in all three main parties - is damaged goods anyway.  I suppose that, as a Green party supporter, I am duty-bound to say this, but the mess that Labour got us into, and the pretty ineffectual attempts that the coalition has so far produced to remedy Labour's errors points to the bankrupt nature of the three parties' thinking.

[JJ]

Philip Pullman is 'damaged goods'?  What does that mean?

[tranchiebabe]

Philip Pullman is 'damaged goods'?  What does that mean?

I wondered what 'damaged goods' meant too? I think his books are excellent.

[ecuworrier]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/31/public-jury-campaign-feral-elite

led by Philip Pullman... the list of celebs is pretty familiar but is Philip P the best person to er lead the revolt?

this looks a bit of a publicity stunt but is this the best opposition can do?

If this is the best the opposition can do, then i think they have got a long way to go.  Philip Pullman is probably not the best person to be leading such a campaign, if only because he - rather like the politicos in all three main parties - is damaged goods anyway.  I suppose that, as a Green party supporter, I am duty-bound to say this, but the mess that Labour got us into, and the pretty ineffectual attempts that the coalition has so far produced to remedy Labour's errors points to the bankrupt nature of the three parties' thinking.

you profess to be a green party supporter and you support the current administration... Bless you Andy it just does not make political sense to believe that where labour failed to fix the legacy of toryism and liberalism in this country by the 'new labour expeirimt' (it was never going to work though not while it was led by closet torys ... with neo tory idealism) that the torys are gonna fix it.... Bless you again Andy the tories and liberals are proud of the legacy and that is the core DNA problem of the situation that a modern electorate has not quite understood this.....   

 to believe that the tories were going to fix what they made a mess of in the first place is cloud cuckoo land... the problems go beyond newadministrations and management.... there is endemic faultlines in the structure of the DNA of the folks who believe in victorianism as the new solution.... not one of the successful social and political economies have come about or survived by political neo colonialist attitudes ie we own you do/serve/slave attitudes..

i have yet to meet one green party member who believes what you seem to i think you are just a frustrated closet tory... like tony

Bless you


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