关于这次英国大选

关于这次英国大选: "
说大选是不大对，应该说“普选”才对，用日本话说应该是“一般选”，顺便说一下，日本也是英国式的选法：由选[出的国会议席来决定哪党执政，才出首相。为什么大家会将“普选”口误为“大选”？因为，实际上，在景观社会里，一切选都是大选了。用卢曼的社会学话语来说，就是一切和随时都可以来选举成为大选的了，都只是：澄清和刷新！

与最近一次的日本普选一样，这次在英国也是第三党杀进来成了第一。其政治领袖也是很“仙”，像个超男。

英国普选一般是尽量想与美国式的大选分开的，这从柏克以来就有很多人明确想坚持，柏克现在大家还普遍认为是不会认同三党领袖在电视上同台竞辩的，因为大家先的是本地的党代表，而不是选择全国的大领袖：每一地人民都在选出本地人物来代表本地政治。但这一次不一样了，大家认为政治的领袖的头发颜色也重要了，也constitutive，也representative了。

从远处看过来，英国议会选举这一世界上可能最古老也最正宗并代表现代政党或议会政治之源头的操作，也被景观化了。

在这个景观里，什么国、什么社会、什么时代的人在其中秀投票，意思已经不大。中国也得进去这个游戏玩上几年？我现在高度怀疑了！

我曾花许多工作的时间在研究不列颠议会制度上，报上一有关于微小的宪政危机的最是琐碎的讨论都会引发我的强大兴趣，但是，现在我已觉这种宪政装置及其维护知识只是一种像象棋或围棋知识那样的东西了。

中国的未来政治像美国那样搞？像英国那样搞？像法国那样搞？这些问题我认为现在都是不着边际了。


Q-In an election where voters choose a member of parliament for their constituency rather than a leader for the country, isn't it nonsensical to have televised debates between three candidates who are standing in three different constituencies and whose names, even collectively, will be printed on less than 1% of all ballot papers?

A-Ah, a parliamentary romantic. Burke would have loved you. It's not nonsensical at all: the party leaders are competing for the job of prime minister, not local MP. And most people vote for the party they like, not the candidate. But you are perfectly free to do otherwise.

Q-If I vote for, say, the Lib Dems and it becomes a hung parliament, what happens? Do I really end up with a Labour or Conservative government and either Gordon Brown or David Cameron running the country?

A-Yup. Sorry. But that's the way things are. Vote Lib Dem and you might – if you live in one of about 80 places in Britain – get a Lib Dem MP. But if more people vote for Labour or the Conservatives, you won't get a Lib Dem government.

What, Labour and Lib Dems, if any, is the ideological difference between your parties?

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All the difference in the world. Labour is a collectivist party; the Liberal Democrats are liberals. Both believe in social justice, but see different routes to get there. If you like the state, you'll love another five years of Labour rule. If not, better go Lib Dem.



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