quarta-feira, março 11, 2009

Acordar as moscas que estão a dormir (parte X)

Quando escrevo sobre o acordar as moscas que estão a dormir, escrevo sobre a necessidade de um novo discurso chegar ao mainstream, o discurso de um estado sem dinheiro e sem grandes possibilidades de se endividar, por falta de crédito, ou de não mais ser possível sobrecarregar o jugo sobre os desgraçados dos saxões impostados, embora os normandos do costume consigam sempre surpreender neste campo.
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Como terá de mudar o discurso político para se ajustar a esse novo paradigma?
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Como é que políticos habituados a gastar dinheiro reagirão? Será o fim das rotundas autárquicas e das 'rotundas' governamentais?
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Este artigo na imprensa inglesa começa a abrir o panorama "Welcome to the inescapable era of no money":
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"For the next ten years British politics is going to be about living with the consequences of the State being flat broke
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We are insolvent. Out of money. Financially embarrassed. Strapped. Cleaned out. We are skint, borassic lint, Larry Flynt, lamb and mint. We are lamentably low on loot. We are maxed out. We are indebted, encumbered, in hock, in the hole. We are broke, hearts of oak, coals and coke. It doesn't matter whether money can buy us love, because we haven't got any.
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Welcome to the era of no money. The central fact of British politics in the next ten years, and perhaps longer, is not hard to spot. British politics isn't going to be dominated by interesting debates on the future of capitalism. It isn't going to be the stage for a revival of interest in democratic socialism. It isn't going to play host to the interplay of competing ambitious projects. No. We're in for a hard slog. Because what British politics is going to be about in the next ten years is living with the consequences of the State being broke, of the Government running out of money"

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