Forget dangerous drivers, what about dangerous voters?
The 2003 Iraq War:-"Twenty years on from the start of the Afghan occupation it ended in utter ignominy.And 20 years after the Iraq invasion, a bleak anniversary marked this week, no-one can be found to excuse the aggression.Not even the Times. Like every other newspaper worldwide in the Murdoch empire, it cheered on the Bush-Blair invasion. Yet this week it editorialised that the war was “an unmitigated disaster” and “a hubristic act of overreach, a reckless product of the American ‘unipolar moment’ that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.“For those responsible, including in Britain, the verdict of history grows only more damning with the passage of time… We all now live with its legacy: a less stable, more dangerous world than at any time since the second world war.”The article could have been a Stop the War Coalition leaflet, in fact. Although there was no acknowledgement that the war was a disaster fully endorsed by the Times and its proprietor at the time. Anyway, imperial misadventures now turn sour even faster than they did in Queen Victoria’s days." (Morning Star yesterday)Meanwhile, on the home front, other things turn sour even faster:-Johnson, only 3 years after big election victory:-"The prime minister who blew an 80 seat majority and an almost guaranteed three terms in office." (Guardian yesterday)
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