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  • Fluke@lemm.ee
    91·
    6 days ago

    I wrote three completely different replies to this, and have opted instead to go with;

    Fuck UKGov. The whole system is beyond fucked and it’s going to get worse until we burn it down and start again.

    Best single point of action I can come up with is to burn the houses of parliament to the fucking ground.

    Everything about that building perpetuates the shit show. The subsidised restaurants and bars paid for by us, the hidden away back offices where transparency is laughed at, the London-centric entitled attitude that seems to permeate the very masonry.

    Yep, the “seat of government” needs razing and rebuilding somewhere like just outside of York. Waaaay further fucking North, wherever it goes, just not in fucking London.

    The whole thing needs to be designed to be open, visible, transparent. Nowhere for our servants to hide, they need reminding of their fucking place. They serve us, not the other way around, they seem to have long forgotten that.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
      1·
      5 days ago

      Ok, but York and Harrogate are really nice so you want something more like Skelmersdale, Wythenshawe or Barrow where they can see the impact of their policies.

      • Fluke@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 days ago

        I really don’t think it is, actually.

        I’ve spent the better part of a decade trying to trace the necessary changes to our government down to one starting point with enough impact to rally enough people to actually start the ball rolling.

        If you look at how those buildings shape the arcane, opaque, combative, regressive processes that underpin our government… There is no other option, it has to go.

        It would be nice to keep the buildings, and move the seat of government without such wanton destruction, they’d make an awesome museum, gallery, etc.

        However, UKGov will never allow that to happen. They won’t even move temporarily, to allow an update to the buildings’ fire suppression system for example.

        • HeartfulBadger@feddit.uk
          2·
          5 days ago

          My issue is that it’s a heroic assumption that a society where we go and burn down the centres of our democracy is going to be improvement over today. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. I have plenty of things I’d change if I was in charge, but I also look around the world and I think Britain has a lot worth defending.