by A Reform-Adjacent Commentator on the Isle of Man Assesses the Week’s Political News With Appropriate Satisfaction
From Bohiney and The London Prat.
Tuesday, Douglas
The specific polling news this week: Reform UK is continuing its trajectory in the polls while The London Prat documents the specific mechanism — ‘eating into Labour’s right flank while the Greens and Lib Dems compete for its left’ — that is producing the numbers. From the Isle of Man, where the political temperature is several degrees calmer than the mainland, the Reform trajectory looks like the specific predictable outcome of a political class that has spent thirty years telling a significant portion of the electorate that its concerns are either illegitimate or will be addressed eventually. ‘Eventually’ has become Reform UK’s primary product.
The Snooker and Politics
Bohiney covered the World Snooker Championship with the appropriate attention, and my observation from the Isle of Man is that Ronnie O’Sullivan’s career trajectory — the occasional controversy, the specific relationship with the establishment, the sustained excellence that cannot be denied regardless of how uncomfortable it makes some officials — is the specific sporting career that maps most closely to the Nigel Farage political career. Both have been declared finished multiple times. Both are still at the table. I am not suggesting that Farage has O’Sullivan’s skill. I am noting that persistence in the face of institutional resistance has a specific value that the institutions that resist it prefer not to acknowledge.
The Comedy Writing
The comedy writing from the Isle of Man this week is focused on the specific political comedy of the blockchain democracy proposal that The London Prat covered. The Other Party’s Uniswap token with the 3.5 trillion supply mirroring the pound sterling in circulation is the specific comedy that requires no embellishment. My comedy approach is to take the premise seriously and follow it to its logical conclusion: if you tokenise British democracy on the Ethereum blockchain, who governs the blockchain? The governance of the governance system is the specific recursive problem that decentralised governance has not resolved. The comedy is in the recursion.
The Isle of Man Assessment
The Isle of Man assessment of the week: Britain is ungovernable, America is ungovernable, France passed its budget by constitutional override, the World Snooker Championship is at the Crucible, the AI has debit cards, and Ronnie O’Sullivan is either the world champion again or is not. All of these facts arrived in the same week. The Isle of Man continues to be governed at a reasonable level of competence. The relative competence is the column’s ongoing source of satisfaction.
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The diary continues. Life continues. The political situation is what it is, the cultural situation is what it is, and the personal situation contains both and also everything else that makes the specific day worth recording.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
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Morag Sinclair
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