see url:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46858111
She is right of course...except that the UK has already been broken up
before there is a no deal. It is just a question of which of the main
two parties crack up the most and where the deepest cracks are and where
their party loyalties finish up. Up till now, it has been very
comfortable for UK politicians, just as in the USA. One decides to take
up politics as a profession and joins the political party which one
thinks will lead to the advancement of ones aims...all in the interest
of the people of course...and which will lead to ones personal
advancement. Under the umbrella of one political party's policies and
philosophy, one had lots of ambit to support or change their politics,
on the basis of the principle, as long as one swore loyalty and carried
out the diktats or mantras of their leadership.
"Management is the science of achieving the probable, whilst politics
is about achieving the art of the possible". However, the old, stable
politics and traditional economic theories no longer apply in our
global society, and nation states no longer can exert the same power
over what happens in our world, whether it be at home or
internationally, so that, the comfort of sticking within a political
party and when it achieves power, one might, as an M.P. achieve office
in government and all the perks which go with it thereto, no longer
applies. Grovelling and loyalty to one's leaders is not as certain as
it used to be, and the future no longer is as certain as it used to be,
whether it be left to the certainty of the "hidden hand of the market
place" of Adam Smith's theories, or the planned economy of Marx and his ilk.
The leadership of the EU has had to stand by and watch as those splits
and divisions develop in UK/English society, tempting though it may be
for them to open their mouths and egg on one group or another, they have
had to keep to their mantras to the key controls in the European Union,
of free movement of capital, free movement of labour, control over
customs and control over tariffs and of course the European Court
dominating all of the sovereign states. United we stand, say they,
mainly Germany and France, presenting this front which denies any
disunity within the corridors of power within the European Establishment
or the different countries, their cultures, their societies and powers
of manufacturing, finance capital, distribution and economic dominance
which make up the Union. Of course it is all a dream, a figment of
their imaginations, discord and disunity is always there, hiding away in
the background, stability of any kind is a front, as Gus Hall, the
leader of the US Communist Party once said, "Unity built on opportunism,
is unity built on sand". It depends on who is best at bluffing it out,
keeping those splits and divisions hidden, exposing the splits and
divisions of others and making them last longer than the adversary.
These are the usual, sound negotiating techniques. However, one has only
to look at the situation in Poland, and Eastern Europe all those years
ago, when Solidarity and other freedom movements led to the breakdown of
the Soviet Union, the Communist Party and the divisions between East and
West brought about the breaking down of the Berlin Wall. The Warsaw
Pact has disappeared. It was set up as a counterforce to NATO.
Nowadays we have the think tanks, the ideological counterparts of NATO,
with the all their propaganda and false flags, creating and supporting
fake news, whilst blaming others. It is becoming increasingly difficult
to decide on which source, or which person to believe, when it comes to
the struggle for truth. The intelligence services appear to have taken
control of the agenda, but the influence of the mass social media,
counteracts it, with their own forms of fake news, truth and false
propoganda. We live in a very complicated world these days...don't you
think?
ATB
Dougie.
