2024-10-21
This site does not do Party Politics - in fact, as regular readers may have noted, we would much rather undo party politics!
Nevertheless we stray today perilously close to "left" vs "right" politics, although I would claim that in fact we are actually talking right vs wrong politics. We are interested in the politics that produces good results for the people, not the politics that produces good results for the vested interests of an ever-expanding civil service and an ever expanding government-at-arms-length which subcontracts all its activities to be implemented (and in practice largely controlled) by the "private sector" (ie: corporate interests of monopolistic tendencies) - and I won't even get started on monetary policy / central banking / planning obfuscation.
Motivation is all! We need a system that sets up the correct motivation for each arm of our democratic system to serve the people in the most efficacious manner at the most affordable cost. Obviously when other motivations dominate, the people's service suffers. That's where we are currently - in our system, the civil service, the politicians, and the judiciary/CPS/police all have perverse motivations incompatible with their service to the people.
So with all that said, I note a thoughtful article in the Daily Sceptic by James Alexander, who reviews the book Return to Growth: How to Fix the Economy by Jon Moynihan.
The fact that some on the "left-right" spectrum will support it, and some dispute it, is in these terms neither here nor there.
Of course the book skates around much else in which governments of all stripes tend to involve themselves (geopolitics, foreign relations, etc) and it doesn't really address the motivational issue as such, so it is by no means a complete work; but as far as it goes, it is a start.
