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LOL. You’d hate it. In fact you’d rapidly end up in some gulag somewhere as you’d refuse to do the sort of work you’d be assigned by the state for your skillset. There would be no swanning around picking and choosing what jobs to take, you’d be working 9-10 hours a day on a line doing the shitty wiring in the budget ‘people’s amplifier’ equivalent of a Trabant! You’d be starting at 7:30 in the morning too.
And Wetherspoons would be long gone.
 
Can you define / describe a Socialist dictatorship?? I'd prefer not to live under any kind of dictatorship if poss.

It would be socialism in the way the country was run for the many not the few. A benevolent dictatorship. Unlike the evil dictatorship we have now. Economically it would be a highly controlled Keynesian capitalism. I guess something like the Attlee gov with it's nationalisation and building of the NHS etc etc but without elections which could allow the return of unrestricted crony capitalism.
There would be no amazon or facebook etc where they exist to make one man (and a cabal of shareholders and directors etc) wealthy enough to buy countries by making countless workers work the longest poss hours for the minimum poss reward and with the constant threat of being sacked if they are not "a good worker ant". Any companies of that size and influence would be state owned and run for the common good.

There would of course be much better pubs than wetherspoons, run by the state, with beer about £1 a pint:p
 
As said, see Italy and 60-odd coalition governments in 70-odd years. Or see Israel, takes them months to hammer out a coalition after each election. I don't think the UK would miraculously be cleverer, unless in so far as it modified PR in the direction of FPTP. The "moral" aspect is neither here nor there if the electoral system does not produce an efficient government that can actually act. Still, it would be interesting to try for a few years and see what happens.
One of the things the Brit contingent in the EU was valued for was our pragmatism and ability to broker deals all sides could live with. I’m reasonably confident we could achieve workable coalition government, though I’d be more confident if we had a better calibre of politician putting the deals together.
 
It would be socialism in the way the country was run for the many not the few. A benevolent dictatorship. Unlike the evil dictatorship we have now. Economically it would be a highly controlled Keynesian capitalism. I guess something like the Attlee gov with it's nationalisation and building of the NHS etc etc but without elections which could allow the return of unrestricted crony capitalism.
No elections? That wouldn’t end well, it never has.
 
It would be socialism in the way the country was run for the many not the few. A benevolent dictatorship. Unlike the evil dictatorship we have now. Economically it would be a highly controlled Keynesian capitalism. I guess something like the Attlee gov with it's nationalisation and building of the NHS etc etc but without elections which could allow the return of unrestricted crony capitalism.
There would be no amazon or facebook etc where they exist to make one man (and a cabal of shareholders and directors etc) wealthy enough to buy countries by making countless workers work the longest poss hours for the minimum poss reward and with the constant threat of being sacked if they are not "a good worker ant". Any companies of that size and influence would be state owned and run for the common good.

There would of course be much better pubs than wetherspoons, run by the state, with beer about £1 a pint:p
I reckon I wouldn’t be able to buy a flat white, nice shoes or a decent car in your world.

It would be horrible.
 
No elections? That wouldn’t end well, it never has.

What would be the point? "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". The system is designed to only allow those who would keep up the same old same old any chance of victory in an election. Hence the whole "stop Corbyn at any cost" campaign that stymied him and hence we live in an elected dictatorship. The country is run by a cabal of "huge companies PLC", the wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs, "the Bilderberg group" (et al) etc etc who also own the entire MSM and brainwash/propagandise the population into voting against their own interests time after time.

As "exhibit 1 for the prosecution" I give you Brexit!

Wake up Sheeple FFS!
 
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What would be the point? "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". The system is designed to only allow those who would keep up the same old same old any chance of victory in an election. Hence the whole "stop Corbyn at any cost" campaign that stymied him and hence we live in an elected dictatorship. The country is run by a cabal of "huge companies PLC", the wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs, "the Bilderberg group" (et al) etc etc who also own the entire MSM and brainwash/propagandise the population into voting against their own interests time after time.

Psst, I think you forgot the Rothschilds, the Illuminati, them lizard people, Xenu and the Ovaltinies.
 
I think I would rather live under Thatcher than ‘Jezland’, Stalin would even be preferable.

Bizarre! You'd prefer thatchers right wing "feck everyone but yourself" greed and selfishness OR Stalins gulags and 5 year plans etc to a moderate socialism in which the min wage is say £17 per hour and no one is allowed to become billionaires and instead that money is used for the good of the majority ie schools, hospitals, social clubs etc?
 
Bizarre! You'd prefer thatchers right wing "feck everyone but yourself" greed and selfishness OR Stalins gulags and 5 year plans etc to a moderate socialism in which the min wage is say £17 per hour and no one is allowed to become billionaires and instead that money is used for the good of the majority ie schools, hospitals, social clubs etc?
Well it wouldn’t work, we would just run out of money & people like me wouldn’t have jobs.

There would still be gulags for the dissidents. Benign dictatorship is an oxymoron at best.

Any examples of benign dictatorships that have worked?
 
Well it wouldn’t work, we would just run out of money & people like me wouldn’t have jobs.

There would still be gulags for the dissidents. Benign dictatorship is an oxymoron at best.

Any examples of benign dictatorships that have worked?

There would be no gulags... well except for the far right and there should be such already in this country. It disgusts me that there are non!

A not merely benign but benevolent dictatorship has not been tried that I know of. Some Middle East oil rich countries could be the closest in some regards but of course they have huge issues with religious freedoms. Some have (or had) no taxes, free petrol and even free houses! Having more money that the entire nation could possibly spend helps of course:D
 
The examples above of supposedly decent left wing people here on pfm having such a problem with any major change to the status quo is indictment enough of the state of UK politics.
 
There would be no gulags... well except for the far right and there should be such already in this country. It disgusts me that there are non!

A not merely benign but benevolent dictatorship has not been tried that I know of. Some Middle East oil rich countries could be the closest in some regards but of course they have huge issues with religious freedoms. Some have (or had) no taxes, free petrol and even free houses! Having more money that the entire nation could possibly spend helps of course:D

I guess some of the better Roman emperors might qualify as benign, if not exactly benevolent dictators. The problem was that when they died, some utter bastard or incompetent idiot usually succeeded then.
 


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