Comments on: The failure of the political class/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosSun, 13 Sep 2015 09:47:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Britain’s forty year political crises | thenextwave/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-5985Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:47:12 +0000/?p=380#comment-5985[…] SNP in Scotland; the long run trend of decline in voting participation; the gap between the “political class” and their views and many of the electorate; the difficulty in winning an electoral majority […]

]]>By: Game theory and the King’s New Clothes | Equities Canada/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-5828Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:31:50 +0000/?p=380#comment-5828[…] incidentally, one of the reasons why having politicians who have never had work outside of politics is so corrosive.) They are ‘new’ politicians who are foolish enough to believe that the purpose of being in […]

]]>By: Game theory and the king’s new clothes | thenextwave/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-5825Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:13:28 +0000/?p=380#comment-5825[…] incidentally, one of the reasons why having politicians who have never had work outside of politics is so corrosive.)  They are ‘new’ politicians who are foolish enough to believe that the purpose of […]

]]>By: Seven notes on the #IndyRef and its aftermath | thenextwave/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-5618Sat, 20 Sep 2014 08:07:40 +0000/?p=380#comment-5618[…] #6. The ‘Yes’ campaign became a test of Westminster and our ‘political class‘. […]

]]>By: Looting the public | thenextwave/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-5584Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:48:08 +0000/?p=380#comment-5584[…] fail to articulate this emerging public view, and instead simply maintain the distance between the political class and the rest of us, draining the legitimacy of the political system as they go. But as Peter […]

]]>By: Out of the shadows | thenextwave/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-4517Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:02:43 +0000/?p=380#comment-4517[…] political class. Now that politicians have more or less detached themselves from their political parties, they have little connection with ordinary people. Instead they live […]

]]>By: The strange death of party politics « thenextwave/2008/06/21/the-failure-of-the-political-class/#comment-2616Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:29:36 +0000/?p=380#comment-2616[…] years ago in New Left Review (subscription required), the decline in party membership has occurred across Europe (even if the UK now manages to achieve some of the lowest numbers), regardless of voting […]

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