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Interesting...
Mar. 12th, 2012 02:42 pm...that we have quite clear and worrying statistics about how many people aren't getting enough fibre, but on no food I've looked at can I find any indication of how much is "enough." No guideline daily amounts, nothing. So how does anyone know that people aren't getting enough? I suppose the sales of laxatives might be a rough guide, but not a very useful one to someone trying to amend hir diet. Daily Mail apparently says 18g, but then the Daily Mail says a lot of things, not all of which are true. Ditto the government. And if that's a solid figure, why don't the food manufacturers use it? (Not that they're going to be any more reliable than the other sources. We're surrounded by people who lie to us all the time. Yay for the Information Age.)
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Incidentally, I see that Nick Clegg is worried that the LibDems might be losing support as a result of entering into a coalition with the Tories. Well colour me dumbfounded. It might have been useful if he'd thought of that sooner. Except of course that as far as I'm concerned, that was his plan all along, and this display of consternation is just for the benefit of the rank and file. The man has no moral currency left, and it will take far more than a bit of public hand-wringing to make him credible again.
The reason that politics is based on compromise is that we have, at any given time, one party whose job is to govern the country, one party whose job is to ensure that the first party fails in all its endeavours, and one party which sees its job as to prop up whichever of the other parties looks as though it might have won but (for good and sufficient reasons) hasn't. This is certainly the worst political system apart from all the others. What it isn't, at the national level and in any meaningful sense, is democracy.
I see a unified parliament, stripped of ideology, whose members are elected on conscience alone, and which is impartially advised by the best and brightest in science, culture, economics and education, and which implements that advice without considering whether it fits this or that outdated manifesto (or puts money in its friends' pockets), but only on the basis of whether it benefits people who need help, which is all of us. What I can't see, for the life of me, is a way to get there from here.
And now I have got to do some work.
This post brought to you by a Nyrond who ought to be doing (a) something useful, (b) something creative, (c) something else. (Delete as applicable.)
Incidentally, I see that Nick Clegg is worried that the LibDems might be losing support as a result of entering into a coalition with the Tories. Well colour me dumbfounded. It might have been useful if he'd thought of that sooner. Except of course that as far as I'm concerned, that was his plan all along, and this display of consternation is just for the benefit of the rank and file. The man has no moral currency left, and it will take far more than a bit of public hand-wringing to make him credible again.
The reason that politics is based on compromise is that we have, at any given time, one party whose job is to govern the country, one party whose job is to ensure that the first party fails in all its endeavours, and one party which sees its job as to prop up whichever of the other parties looks as though it might have won but (for good and sufficient reasons) hasn't. This is certainly the worst political system apart from all the others. What it isn't, at the national level and in any meaningful sense, is democracy.
I see a unified parliament, stripped of ideology, whose members are elected on conscience alone, and which is impartially advised by the best and brightest in science, culture, economics and education, and which implements that advice without considering whether it fits this or that outdated manifesto (or puts money in its friends' pockets), but only on the basis of whether it benefits people who need help, which is all of us. What I can't see, for the life of me, is a way to get there from here.
And now I have got to do some work.