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| agentmancuso |
A Final ThoughtA final thought before casting your multiple votes tomorrow:
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| SLG |
Well, who I'll be voting for is based on the how and the how much . | ||||||||||
| Rinty |
Popper of course, has no objections to the orgnaisation of that weilding of power being arranged in geographical territories.
He is right, writing from his time especially, that the nation state is an irrelevance. I prefer smaller organising units nearer to the people and as much devolution of power as possible. I know Popper would agree and would certainly have been in favour of devolution and fiscal autonomy. He wouldnt have really bothered about where the border fell but he would have had smaller organising units than the lumbering westminster and european institutions and given power to the scottish people to decide. He certainly would have backed an independence referendum in my opinion. |
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| agentmancuso |
Understandably so. It is difficult to conceive of any administrative system which would not depend on geographical territories. He would object strongly to the whipping up of emotional attachment to the administrative units of geographical territory, on the grounds that, as history has clearly shown, this leads to tyranny.
Not an irrelevance, but a dangerous illusion.
Yes, undoubtedly. I'd like to think that this shared belief in subsidiarity can provide grounds for co-operation in the future, but I confess that contamination of the political process by emotionally driven factionalism (class, nation, tribe, religion) makes this seem only a distant goal as yet.
That's an intriguing theory. I suspect not, on the whole, on the basis of his recommendations as to the limiting effect that strong legal and political institutions have on the demagoguery of whimsical or 'personalised' rulers.
Holyrood has no legal authority on constitutional issues. The likely relative success of the SNP at the polls today is due more to a desire to kick Blair, than a sudden mass conversion to independence. An artificial yes/no vote may produce a majority of 'yes' votes, but as all polls show that the 'more powers' option is the most popular, insisting on a yes/no referendum is sheer demagoguery. I think it unlikely that Popper would be in favour of any such manipulation of the political machinery. |
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