The longer a government or party are in office, the stronger are the manifestations of growing intolerance for dissent, the paranoia about conspiracies to unseat it, the corruption (both personal and political), and the abuse of power.
FT.com’s Willem Buiter’s “Cleaning the stables”  It is amazing that after all these years of the devolution repeating so analysis like this is not surprising, we still do little about changing the pattern.

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