As Tony Blair launches Britain’s general election campaign, a postal-voting scandal is further undermining voters’ trust in their political leaders.
April 9, 2005 (Press Release) --
“The Mother of Parliaments” is hailed as a model for the world, an inspiration for wannabe democracies.
Rigged elections, for example, are what happen to them. Think Ukraine. Think Kyrgyzstan. Think Zimbabwe. When the people are cheated, civil society camps in squares, political culture zips up its cagoule and stands in the cold, rioters carve thick wedges into clubs, the gap between a state and its citizens tightens. Britain has no need for exercises in people power. Mothers don’t do protests.
At least, that’s the way it’s meant to be.
This week, Britain’s election officially kicked off...
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-126-2408.jsp
Rigged elections, for example, are what happen to them. Think Ukraine. Think Kyrgyzstan. Think Zimbabwe. When the people are cheated, civil society camps in squares, political culture zips up its cagoule and stands in the cold, rioters carve thick wedges into clubs, the gap between a state and its citizens tightens. Britain has no need for exercises in people power. Mothers don’t do protests.
At least, that’s the way it’s meant to be.
This week, Britain’s election officially kicked off...
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-126-2408.jsp
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