The Alternative Was Worse, I Guess

It seems that David Cameron finally gets the be the Prime Minister over in the UK now that enough backroom deals have been cut and Gordon Brown has been strapped to a barrel full of worthless Euros and tossed into the Thames. Usually the decisive victory of a conservative (by European standards) is cause for celebration as it once again shows that average people, when faced with socialism, run the other way each and every time. Two problems dampen the party a bit, however.

The first one is the ridiculous British electoral system. While not a proportional voting system like in much of Europe, the Brits have still managed to develop a system where winning the most seats doesn't guarantee you power. This brings the asinine process of coalition building into play. To be the PM, Cameron had to strike a Faustian deal with the Lib Democrats and their leader Clegg. What Cameron had to give these leftists to form the coalition, I can't say but I can certainly surmise that it completely undercuts the conservative political platform. The real travesty is that Clegg, who finished a distant third, had all the leverage. He could easily have formed a coalition with the Labor (I don't use unnecessary u's) that would have kept disgraced leader Brown in power.

The second problem is that the United Kingdom is still part of the European Union. The EU is much like the UN, a mostly socialist organization that is completely ineffective at achieving its stated goals. This thing with Greece is the perfect example. Rules were set up to prevent this, they were not followed, they weren't enforced and when the lazy, goldbricking Greeks finally hit rock bottom, the EU gave them a trillion dollars, after begging the U.S. to lend them a trillion dollars of course. Which we stupidly did with absolutely no collateral. Aside from the ineffectiveness of the bailouts, is that once and for all we know that EU cannot prevent financial catastrophe in Europe and that its member states simply are unwilling to change their spending ways and that the rich EU countries will continue to be cannibalized by the poor ones until the whole lot of them are flat broke and pathetic. Luckily, the Brits kept themselves out of the Eurozone, they still use their traditional pound sterling. This will make it easier to remove themselves from the EU. This will seem drastic but unless the UK completely removes itself from this anchor called the EU and starts to enact some fiscal responsibility, then the Brits will end up in the same spot as the Greeks, only worse since the Brits can accumulate far higher debt ratios because of their economy. The same can be said of the United States.

So while I'm happy that Mr. Cameron and his party took control over there, the collectivist nature of European countries puts a dark edge on the victory. I hope Mr. Cameron has the guts to end the Brits experiment in the EU and brings that country back in order. After all, I'm going to need an English speaking country to move to after the system falls apart completely here in the States.