Just a quick post on tonights vote in the US Congress bringing the healthcare bill one step closer. What has been an eye-opener is how often the word "historic" is used. How often are votes in the Scottish or UK Parliaments described as "historic" and how many in the last decade could truly be described as historic?
As I've said before, our current politicians can't see further than the next election - they don't do historic (with the possible exception of the devolution acts in the UK Parliament).
Usually when they talk about truly "historic" reforms - constitutional reform, electoral reform, joining the euro, reform of the lords - there is certainly no "fierce urgency of now". Britain is bankrupt so maybe their should be more urgency?
"the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie... but the myth," "...the cliches of our forebears... the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought" JFK 1962
About This Blog
- M W Steel
- The aim of this blog is to get to the facts behind the issues that cause arguments around dinner tables, in work canteens and pubs across Scotland. It won't always be the issues that are most in the news or the ones politicians want us to focus on. But it will get right to the heart of what really matters to ordinary people.
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