Stories tagged with UK democracy

Poverty of Vision

Posted by Euan Mearns on October 5, 2007 - 10:00am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: aspo, michael meacher, UK democracy [list all tags]

During the final panel debate at ASPO 6 in Cork, former Minister of State for the Environment, Privy Counsellor and UK Member of Parliament Michael Meacher gave a rousing reply to a question from the floor.

The other thing which I think is very important is vested interests. Who wants to keep the world the way it is?

The oil industry; the chemical industry; the food industry; the car industry; the airline industry. These are very powerful. Who rules Britain? Not parliament.

Read the full text below the fold. Or download the 1 Mb wma audio file here. Thanks to Richard O'Rourke (ASPO Ireland) for sending me the audio file for this segment.

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