What would this be called?

[poster342002]

What would a government that comprised of unelected senior business and military figures be called?

 

[kyser_soze]

Military-Industrial Hegemony?

 

[Crispy]

That's the dictionary definition of fascism isn't it?

ah, ok, I see what you did there

 

[treelover]

A Junta?

 

[jiggajagga]

Oligarchy? Like the UK?

1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
2. a state or organization so ruled.
3. the persons or class so ruling

 

[poster342002]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2122457,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6254152.stm

 

[kyser_soze]

I hate to say it but all the people who actually run this country are unelected - the muppets in Parliament would be NOTHING without the bureaucracy.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Off topic but I've just got to say this.

Sir Digby Jones as a minister in a labour govt.

Ccccccccccccuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnttttttttttttt!

 

[treelover]

I don't know how I missed that article in the G, heard Monbiot speak at the WDM conf, he is certainly moving leftwards...

 

[chymaera]

Off topic but I've just got to say this.

Sir Digby Jones as a minister in a labour govt.

Ccccccccccccuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnttttttttttttt!

I have to admit he would be somewhere near the top of my list to be shot come the revolution.

 

[Belushi]

What would a governemnt that comprised of unelected senior business and military figures be called?

A firm friend of the United Kingdom in the case of Pinochet's Chile.

 

[poster342002]

I think the country is headed towards very frightening territory indeed.

 

[treelover]

tbh, these appointments are truly sickening, how much lower can they go?

 

[treelover]

this is very salient

After 10 years of broken promises we still don't have a corporate killing act. Inequality has reached scarcely imaginable levels, tax evasion is rampant, the railways are still in private hands, council housing remains moribund, companies don't have to publish operating and financial reviews, and the minimum wage is far from being a living wage. And there is the small matter of an illegal war in which perhaps a million people have died.

Amicus, one half of Unite, the super-union it recently formed with the TGWU, dismisses such complaints as "the hard left ... kick[ing] up a fuss over minor areas of difficulty". What, I wonder, would be a major area of difficulty? When you challenge the unions, they rattle a yellowed parchment and proclaim: "But we have the Warwick agreement!" This is the pact they signed with the government in 2004, which persuaded them not to break with the party. But it must now be obvious to anyone who isn't singing loudly while stuffing his fingers in his ears that the government intends only to honour the easy bits. It has punted the more difficult promises - like fair conditions for agency workers - into the indeterminate future.

 

[chymaera]

I am a bit out of touch as I was out of the country when these people were appointed. Are any of them in cabinet posts?

 

[Belushi]

I am a bit out of touch as I was out of the country when these people were appointed. Are any of them in cabinet posts?

No, Ministers of State.

 

[Cobbles]

What would a governemnt that comprised of unelected senior business and military figures be called?

Pakistan?
Seems to work fine there.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

tbh, these appointments are truly sickening, how much lower can they go?

Exhumation of the late and unlamented Lady Birdwood as Minister for Diversity?

 

[brasicritique]

What would a governemnt that comprised of unelected senior business and military figures be called?

new labour

 

[dennisr]

new labour

indeed