Downing Street Memo

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Seeing as most voters have never really cared about the truth in an objective sense that means that governments have never really done responsible behavior

One of the best bits of every new year over here is when all the old papers released under the 30 year rule are published, btw.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

People have become increasingly inured at government abuses; consequently the absuses have become larger and more daring. It's a worrying trend in democracy.

I think that public or semi-public abuses have got worse but (speaking from a British perspective) overall things don't seem to have got a whole lot worse; after all the worst post-war government abuse over here happend 20 years ago and the sort of dodgy stuff the government got up to in the General Strike back in the '20's is unimaginable nowadays.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Although what you've said is exactly what's happend to local government over here. Heard about the power struggle in Liverpool?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I guess I'm writing mostly from an American perspective. Sure, terrible abuses happened back in the day, but when obvious and substantial enough they used to generate quite a storm. No longer, it seems. Everything has been submerged under partisanship, and even large government abuses don't change many minds.