Politicians of the ‘centre ground’ have led us to the brink
Posted: 12 Jun 2012, 13:50
The Independent - 12/06/12
Politicians of the ‘centre ground’ have led us to the brink of catastrophe
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+1The era of moderate politicians is at an end, and as a consequence so is the complacent notion that it is possible to stay out of politics.
“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia,” as Orwell once said.
Leaders who previously put their faith in a certain type of economic system and claimed this as an expression of their moderacy didn’t know everything and as a result it turns out they didn’t really know anything.
As for the rest of us, perhaps all we can really do now is wait for the economic and political storm to hit.