Berlusconi and the Women

A blow was struck against Progressive Governance at the weekend in Italy. Attempts to force a bi-lateral party system on to the glorious diversity of party and faction was defeated by two means: some of us voted steadily No in the referendums, others refused to vote at all, causing the referendums to fail to reach the 50% of the electorate that validation required.

Progressive Governance media are presenting this as a signal of lack of interest in politics, failure to understand the referendums by the electorate and all the other usual patronising political elite refusal to take No for an answer. They'll be back, they always are. The proposal now is to change the electoral procedure in the Parliament, but fortunately Progressive Governance which is centred mainly in the Democratic Party, is not in power. And even in the Democratic Party, Progressive Governance is only a faction within the coalition. That's what they don't like, that's why they were trying to create advantage for their grouping, in the name of modern political behaviour and post democratic 21st century politics.

They're everywhere aren't they? At their jamboree in Chile earlier in the year Progressive Governance's Dario Franceschini networked away with the usual suspects - New Labour was there in force. Franceschini is easily recognised by his inability to dress himself, tie a tie, shave properly, and an unfortunate, hectoring manner about what is right. He became Leader of his Party after selection by a limited group rather than elections across the whole Party. A familiar syndrome.

The steady diet of outright lies, misrepresentation of claims to past socioeconomic achievement, and the gathering up of moribund parties and groupings and institutions, together with their often not inconsiderable resources, is familiar too. As is the eager talking-up of global solutions to global problems, entitled sectors of society, social and moral capitalism....the utter unworthiness, both personal and ideological of any other political movement or figure holding any other view. (Not for nothing is Berlusconi the centre of a media storm about requiring to be surrounded by pretty women which is neither here nor there in political realities; he should be the object of a storm about his political, economic and constitutional activities).

Does all this matter in the United Kingdom? Certainly. Apart from the repulsive irritation of quite so much falsity and self-righteousness, both countries are member-states of a European Union at a crunch point in its development. Progressive Governance exists to instal permanent administrative rule from a controlled recruitment of a political elite which crowds out any other governing model and does so by proclaiming It Is Right. Any other form of rule, most particularly mass, pluralist democracy must be first marginalised by being typified as failing and producing inequality, and then criminalised as the powers of the state fall under Progressive Governance control, and its client citizens are infantilised in the work, social interaction and educational aspects of their lives.

You don't need a conspiracy theory mind set to understand this. Progressive Governance is as much a modern political movement as hyper liberalism. It has deep roots that can be traced through the last century and even further back. It might be regarded as humanised and technically improved realised socialism. And it has great appeal to its beneficiaries who are legion, not just the new elites.