In the UK people struggled for centuries to achieve universal suffrage in 1918. The right to vote for all is a key component of democracy. In the UK today, the right to vote to elect MPs is barely relevant. The main party’s preoccupations have become fossilised arguments about relatively trivial changes in the funding of public services [...]
Posts Tagged ‘savings’
The disenfranchisement of capital – how the city stole your vote
Posted in Financial Crisis, tagged Alienation, financial establishment, Marx, pensions, power of the City, savings on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »