How to fix Britain's broken political system | Ben Ansell interview
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Ben Ansell is a political scientist, Professor at Oxford University and the BBC's Reith Lecturer for 2023.
He came by JOETowers to speak about his book, Why Politics Fails, to unpick the fundamental issues in the British political system and how to solve them.
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Surprised that he didn’t mention technological change as a driver of discontent
He did in his lectures.
I'm in my mid 50's I went to university at a time when only about 10% of people did. Something that's noticeable when recruiting current graduates is the number of people who leave university that are very highly qualified, and also almost completely uneducated. There are huge number of people at university, getting themselves into debt, who would be far better off if they just didn't go there.
Cotton not polyester (if you don't want mic static)
I thought there were some messages there for this channel and its use of language actually!
It is reprobated. A system full of reprobates. Oliver Cromwell had the same problem with parliamentarians running amuck, as they have continues to do.
Going to listen to Ben on BBC sounds right now
It's both the system and the types who would be attracted to that system
"Overeducation" should never be a problem for a society. Lack of education always is.
This year's Reith lecturer? JOE is now absolutely an institution!
'We need growth' Nope, we need massive redistribution and investment channelled in conpletely different dirextions
Nope, we need better spelling!
"... resisteibution and investment channelle in conpletely different dirextions" seriously dude, there's a spell checker on RUclips.
How are these things and growth opposed?
@@daryoushhaj-najafi9865 they're not necessarily opposed although growth is a problem for the environment. What I mean is raising GDP or some similar measure with the way the UK economy is organised just concentrates ever more wealth at the top. Our economy has plenty of money in it for everything we need, the problem is where it ends up.
wealth doesn't exist, only productive power: what should we be producing instead of what we are?
growth is proportional to 2 factors: exploitation rate and technological accumulation (marx called this inorganic fraction but i think his maths is wrong using it). people are happy to be exploited in marxist sense provided it gives them something: it is this something society lacks now. people can work like slaves if it ignites their hearts.
this is our ultimate problem: our country is depressed. the yanks have it just as bad, and their economy is booming rn.
@@OsirusHandle off the top of my head, the country's infrastructure is crumbling, repair and rebuild it, refitting homes to be more energy efficient, upgrading the 100 year old railways, properly funding social care, expand and subsidise public transport to encourage people out of their cars
Supremely unimpressive commentary. Where's the original thought or actuall analysis beyond stating the obvious?
"Millenial home owners. All 3 of them". I didn't realise this was Liva at the Apollo🤣🤣🤣
Live at the Apollo isn’t funny.
We don't need less education, we need less graduates with degrees in fields like political science. And that's not even a knock on the field, there's always going to be fewer jobs in certain fields than others. We just don't need as many artists and historians as we do engineers, doctors, accountants, lawyers, natural scientists, etc but the current system presents almost all fields to 18 year olds as having equal opportunity.
Taking a pure political lens on things also ignores solutions that fix the economic and social problems causing a lot of the trends he mentioned in favour of compromises that appease more people. Home owners will never approve of reducing the amount of financialisation in the economy but sometimes you need some political pain to build longer term benefits for the country as a whole. Growth for the sake of growth is a political win but potentially the makings of economic catastrophe. There was ample growth before almost every depression we've ever had.
people dont want to become plumbers because its lonely and existentially horrifying to the current generation. the problem is much deeper than just opportunity: the very model of a simple family life where you happily enjoy what you have isnt enough for us when we are being bombarded with apocalypsisms and international social reality.
There should be a medal somewhere for men who can sustain a conversation without the word cleavage prompting an immediate chuckle 🤭
Which country are you guys talking about?
Countries in general actually, though with England in the focus.
So the words he isn't saying about Brexit is Corbyn had it right.
Not sure there was much 'fixing' going on here! Perhaps there is more in the book. The over-education issue was interesting but as with much of what was discussed there was no real examination of what that meant; whether it meant there was too much education or not enough development of opportunities. The one 'fix' mentioned was growth - in itself quite a contentious word. What sort of growth? How? Apparently, a spontaneous organic growth. I guess I'll have to listen to the lectures for more detail (was this a marketing ploy?!)
Wonderful, rational, proportionate, practical, more please. So refreshing compared to the likes of the US Newsmax, or the UK’s New culture forum, etc.
The new culture forum just helps propoganda Tufton streets ideology and a class system imo
Did you just compare PoliticsJOE to Newsmax? 🤭
@@kalebdaark100 No, I compared the outputs of the two, and found NM lacking, despite its funding.
@@antonysmyth2464 So....yes then. 😄