Election in the UK: Britain's choice  

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The Economist

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 395 no. 8677 (Apr. 2010), page 11.
Topik: Election; Britain; Gordon Brown; David Cameron; Nick Clegg

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WHATEVER they tell you in school, not all elections matter equally. Sometimes the government isn’t in any danger of losing its grip; sometimes no one would notice if it did. The British general election on May 6th is not one of those. It does matter, and not just because the party in power for the past 13 years is more likely than not to lose. It matters domestically because Britain, after a decade and a half of strong, steady growth, has been knocked off track by savage recession and turmoil in the financial world it once dominated. Its public finances are in an almighty mess, its budget deficit at a post-war high of 11.8% of GDP. Britain has lost its political bearings too. The New Labour model, which aimed at social justice paid for by the fruits of more or less free-market capitalism, ran out of puff roughly when the money did. The state has grown, personal freedom has shrunk, and it is not clear that people are much the better for it.

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