I would say the latter!
2007-01-05 22:59:19 · 21 answers · asked by Sir Sidney Snot 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
007 very constructive!
2007-01-05 23:05:27 · update #1
It's an elective dictatorship. Allow me to ellaborate (I appologise in advance for the length of this answer)
For some background:
The current electoral constituency boundries have a built in bias towards labour that means that in the event of labour and tory getting equal number of votes, labour would win the election with a majority of 60 seats.
The electoral boundry commision know how people are likely to vote in various areas and set the boundries accordingly.
In the 1980's the electoral constituency boundries favoured the tories.
To win an election outright, the tories need to get more than 41% of the share of the vote, labour only needed 36% at the last election which gave them a 66 seat majority. The turnout was low at the last election, which meant that of the entire adult population eligable to vote, only 22% of them voted labour. In fact more people, that were eligable to vote, did not vote at all, than voted labour. In the overall share of the vote amongst all adults, the 'none of the above' won the largest share of the vote by a large margin.
Note they did NOT vote for Blair, as most people do not live in Sedgefield, (Blair's constituency). This 22% of people only voted for a labour candidate. That means that a whopping 78% of the adult population did NOT support Labour, or Blair at the last general election. In My Humble Opinion, Blair does not have a mandate to govern.
This is how I maintain that we live in an elective dictatorship. We have elections, but the outcome is largely a forgone conclusion. Whichever party is most in favour of following a globalist, unipolar agenda is the party selected, by the people who determine the constituency boundries, to win.
This means whichever of the two main parties is most infavour of closer integration with Europe (As a stepping stone towards a unpolar world order) is awarded the boundries required to win. In the seventies and eighties this was the Conservatives, in the nineties this changed to 'new' labour.
Now we have labour and tory with almost identical policies to the extent that it really makes no difference which party is in power.
We are also in a Dictatorship to the extent that the government does as it pleases, and serves an agenda exclusively to serve foriegn interests without any regard what-so-ever for the will of the electorate. From Iraq, to ID cards, to Hospital closures, to immigration, to education policy, the Labour party completely ignores the will of the people. The tories only differ from labour on ID cards, but I am not sure what they would impose on us in place of these illiberal, fascist tools of tracking and control.
A nanny state, in reality, is a state in which the Government believes it knows best and regulates every area of life to suit their agenda. Labour does fit this description to a Tee, but for all the reasons I listed earlier, I go for Dictatorship. Or we could say, it is a nanny state elective dictatorship.
2007-01-05 23:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by kenhallonthenet 5 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Is there much of a difference? Nanny state - where we are restricted in what we can do, say and always being watched by those in charge. Dictatorship - All of the above but with only 1 boss-man rather than an elected government (who do not listen to the electors once in power)
2007-01-05 23:08:10 · answer #2 · answered by BobC 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It is already illegal to take your hand of the wheel to eat/drink or change the buttons on your radio.... I do agree that we are very much like a dictatorship now or as the critics call it an elective dictatorship (is refering to UK )
2016-05-22 22:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a Nanny State that's quickly turning into a Surveillance State, however its body politic is little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship.
2007-01-05 23:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by Simon D 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
New Labour has achieved the impossible; a nanny state and a dictatorship.
2007-01-05 23:03:48 · answer #5 · answered by Rainman 4 · 10⤊ 0⤋
The UK is a nanny state.
2007-01-05 23:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by kobie65 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
A dictatorship
2007-01-05 23:07:14 · answer #7 · answered by David C 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The UK is a Democracy.
I remember the elections, Labour got in, Micheal Howard resigned..I even remember voting.
There are actually real dictatorships in the world.
2007-01-05 23:14:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
definitely a dictatorship, but done in a way that many people think we have the say. Monkeys in parliament always have their say no matter what we want
2007-01-06 00:57:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Big Brother Knows Best!
2007-01-05 23:14:53 · answer #10 · answered by checkmate 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋