Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed

Re:Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it ev... by arlort on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:02AM (#31118694)

Yes, and in other aspects having a stable leadership for long (and it's not like we're talking about eons, it's 4 elections) greatly benefited Germany

People elected them and their party, their party had chosen them for the position. It's not like they forced anyone to put them there.

Term limits in democracies make very little sense when they affect a President or other directly elected positions of great personal power

They make no sense for chancellors or prime ministers who in any case are going to mostly be controlled by the parliament

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Re:Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it ev... by inglor_cz on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:57AM (#31119026)

I disagree on the term limit topic.

Democracies benefit from change. Indeed I would argue that cadre change is their kill app. But it must be happening.

The same top politician will employ the same ministers, consultants etc., thus slowly creating an ossifying structure that aggregates a lot of mistakes of the same type. It is a process that reminds me of inbreeding in biology. Small pathologies slowly become more pronounced.

As we live longer and longer, we run into a risk that our Senates etc. will turn into gerontocracies of 80+ year old people and that a typical intern will be fifty.

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