What can we do to change the minds of decision makers and people in general to actually do something about preparing for the forthcoming economic/energy crises (the ones after this one!)?
30 years ago, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The Prime Ministers who orchestrated it, Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar, speak to Ben Henderson.
Far more is possible than many unionists believe.
That was two equal-sized territories which both wanted independence from the other after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is a completely different situation.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
clv101 wrote: ↑04 Mar 2023, 10:11
Every situation is different. Crazy things happen.
Yes, but there are limits. The limits are imposed by both the laws of physics and the existing socio-political structures.
No one knows the future.
No one knows every detail of the future, but we can make both absolute and probabilistic predictions about specific situations. Especially negative predictions. San Marino are never going to win the World Cup. I'm never going to be a politician. There's never going to be a blizzard in Bangladesh. The probability of the average living standard in Scotland going up after independence is tending toward zero.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
On average, four polls conducted over the last week or so have found that 30% would prefer Kate Forbes, 20% Humza Yousaf, and 10% Ash Regan. That said, as many as 40% have either said that they don't know or that they do not have a preference for any of the candidates.
However, the battle to become Scotland's next first minister will not be decided by voters as a whole.
Rather, it will be determined by the choice made by members of the SNP, who, according to one recent estimate, now number just under 80,000 people.
Their views may not necessarily reflect the views of Scots in general. Indeed, the polls have shown that, even among those who would currently or have recently voted SNP, the picture is rather different, with Mr Yousaf seemingly neck and neck with Ms Forbes.
That's really interesting. Suggests there's a real possibility that the SNP could elect a socially-conservative Christian as its leader. That would cause the immediate leaving of a large contingent of wokies from the party, and also a significant loss of votes to the greens (who are more woke than the SNP).
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
Turns out they've lost a quarter of their membership, largely as a result of the gender reform bill that Westminster vetoed, and then been found out telling stupid lies about it.
What an idiot Humza Yousaf is. People say Sunak is "bad at politics", but Yousaf is off the badness scale. The SNP needs to hand power over to Labour -- there needs to be an election.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
Seems like Scottish-Pakistanis have had quite an influence in Scottish politics. I guess they make the right noises and push the right anti-English buttons. I hear the Labour leader is the scion of the influential Sarwar family I recall his Dad being a bit 'controversial' in the 1990s.
Of course it was all the racist fascist English behind this.
And Yes. This guy makes Rishi look competent. All the while oil bounty gets pumped away, complete with tax write-offs, taxpayer clean-up looming, just to keep the world oil price down.
