After a devastating election defeat, Kilroy Silk has quit Veritas and sees little point in continuing his political party. Kilroy stated:
"It was clear from the general election result - and more recently that of the Cheadle by-election - that the electors are content with the old parties and that it would be virtually impossible for a new party to make a significant impact given the nature of our electoral system. We tried and failed."
The strange thing here is that both Kilroy Silk and George Galloway are both extremists within the current political field (it seems to me). Kilroy is extreme right-wing while Galloway represents the extreme left. Yet Galloway has done very well in the elections and, of the two, has been able to bruise Blair.
At the same time as the U.K. has turned towards left-wing, liberal politicians we can see the opposite in the U.S. That's kind of ironic. It will be very difficult now for the Democrats to gain political ground within the U.S.A. (where evangelical values, right-wing views have become so strong). Likewise, parties such as Kilroy Silk or even the Tories will find it almost impossible to make any impression within this country.
The absence of competing viewpoints and a wide range of dynamic political parties within the U.K. and the U.S. is worrying. We are somehow moving towards a one-party-state or oligarchic political regime where a minority group of of right-wing or left-wing extremists is allowed to legislate with near impunity.
Kind of reminds me of the staleness so evident in the Chernenko years within Moscow.
"It was clear from the general election result - and more recently that of the Cheadle by-election - that the electors are content with the old parties and that it would be virtually impossible for a new party to make a significant impact given the nature of our electoral system. We tried and failed."
The strange thing here is that both Kilroy Silk and George Galloway are both extremists within the current political field (it seems to me). Kilroy is extreme right-wing while Galloway represents the extreme left. Yet Galloway has done very well in the elections and, of the two, has been able to bruise Blair.
At the same time as the U.K. has turned towards left-wing, liberal politicians we can see the opposite in the U.S. That's kind of ironic. It will be very difficult now for the Democrats to gain political ground within the U.S.A. (where evangelical values, right-wing views have become so strong). Likewise, parties such as Kilroy Silk or even the Tories will find it almost impossible to make any impression within this country.
The absence of competing viewpoints and a wide range of dynamic political parties within the U.K. and the U.S. is worrying. We are somehow moving towards a one-party-state or oligarchic political regime where a minority group of of right-wing or left-wing extremists is allowed to legislate with near impunity.
Kind of reminds me of the staleness so evident in the Chernenko years within Moscow.
