Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Huge wrote:
On 2011-08-05, J.G.Harston wrote:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
I'm not an economist, but I suspect there are actually just a few
fundamental things a nation needs to get right. Some of these (such
The problem is, the people who would suffer from the reconstruction
of the economic system have votes.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money
from
the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for
the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with
the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy
always followed by dictatorship.
- Alexander Fraser Tyler,'The Decline and Fall of the Athenian
Republic'.
Hopefully he was wrong about dictatorship.
I suspect not.

Anyway we are a monarchy.

Might end up with King William V and a controlling army, and take your
hat off when he goes past...

And barons running the shires, and mayors running the towns.

Be a lot preferable to Commissar Millibrain

Monarchy has worked a lot longer than democracy.

You can be Robin hood if you want. I bags Sheriff of Nottingham.

Can I have Maid Marian? Oh, sorry ...

yerrrs. Shagging in the green wood probably beats sitting on the dole in
toxteth,,