[lit-ideas] Re: QPR v Chelsea/ Tessellated Pavement
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Beth Aylard <hawk315@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 06:31:01 -0500
I didn't quite realize things were so bad where you are, Judy. I've been
pretty ensconced in U.S. news lately and haven't kept up much with what's
happening overseas, except maybe for Greece. I need to watch a little
broader news, I think. American politics have been either wildly amusing
or deeply frightening, depending on your mood at the time. And there's the
WSO I've been following pretty fanatically.
If the NHS goes under, what are the proposed alternatives? Didn't realize
you all were having issues re. student fees, etc.,either. I've kind of
been in my own American world for several months.
With the U.S. struggling so hard to find ways to provide health care and
lower student fees and alla dat (the Congress has been such a huge obstacle
-- the bills they won't even put to the floor for debate even), it is
disheartening to hear places like England with systems I have admired are
losing that ground.
Julie Krueger
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Judith Evans
<judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I don't really know. There's no particular reason why you should hear
> about the Lib. Dem. part of the coalition, I'd say it's been subsumed.
> There are some good Lib. Dem. Lords, and they've been doing what they can
> to postpone the effective abolition of the NHS. My MP left her ministerial
> aide post over student fees, but that was politically sensible: anti-war
> and anti-fees votes were crucial to her election in 2005. I assume Lib.
> Dem. ministers are still saying coalition policies would have been even
> more dreadful if they hadn't acted as a moderating influence... .
>
> "a tessellated
> > pavement without cement."
>
> naked self-interest stands in for cement; Lib Dem support's collapsed
> since the election, the last thing they need is another one soon.
>
> I feel I should have more to say about this. I think I'm just too gloomy
> (NHS, welfare/benefit cuts, economy flatlining...) to take much of an
> interest.
>
> Here's a funny political clip instead!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNuUP8GX4AU
>
> Judy Evans, Cardiff
>
> --- On Thu, 3/11/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: QPR v Chelsea/ Tessellated Pavement
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Thursday, 3 November, 2011, 18:38
> > News of football and of celebrity
> > breeding habits travels here just fine. What I
> > realized today, though, is that I'm missing any
> > assessment of how co-alition government in Britain is
> > working. The realization was provoked by a line from
> > Burke, who described one such government as "a tessellated
> > pavement without cement." We get mentions in our news
> > of the British chief brick annoying Sarkozy, but nothing
> > about the Lib-Dems. Any thoughts from those who are
> > geographically closer, or who read what I do not?
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > with nary a lib-dem in sight in
> > Portland,
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