my personal take was that, in asking Parliament to vote his Conservative Party out, asking for a vote of "no confidence" in his government, he broke any support from Charles Dance's character, and that the vote did in fact remove his party, which accounted for his ambivalent grin (I lost but I got what I wanted). However, from other responses here, I guess I was wrong.
my personal take was that this was about whether or not we should allow mis-information to take us into war, which is not democratic, but is instead allowing minority rule by the wealthy under the false flag of democracy.
Here in the US we 'can' see that these lies are being spread at the highest levels for political causes, and even President Obama has repeated the lie that the Iranian President said he wants to see Israel obliterated when he said no such thing. Just yesterday on Democracy Now I got to watch President Obama speaking to Israeli television about how the Iranians can make a nuclear bomb in a year, when all of our upper level intelligence workers have been careful to point out that Iran has not decided to make one, and could not make that decision in secret without them finding out or seeing materials or resources diverted to that purpose without our seeing some evidence of it happening... All the experts continue to say they aren't making a bomb, but all of our politicians in the two major parties continue to say they are.
So, the point, IMHO, is that we should stop voting for politicians who don't care enough to speak the truth and represent the People whom they represent.
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Lopsided55
11 years ago
I don't think that was the point-- the public DID vote in a PM who wasn't willing to keep shovelling bullsh!t and he just got pushed out and the war-mongers took over regardless (a coup of sorts). I thought the point was the politicians aren't in charge either ("you get to the top and find out it's the middle"). Play along or get trampled.
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drjettrink
10 years ago
He lost the vote. The powers in the shadows returned. They got their war, they got all their puppets back in place.
The novel this is based on, and the original "Very British Coup" were set during the Cold War and the naive "power of the vote" vs. "the power of money" was much more stark and contrasting than in this story.
Given the British setting, I think many in an American audience may have been left cold by the machinations of the Parlimentary system and how political power is wielded.
Great cast, but I agree setting a Cold War story in today's world loses something in the translation.
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gorbals406
9 years ago
Great cast, but I agree setting a Cold War story in today's world loses something in the translation.
Where did you see a "Cold War story"? There weren't any "Superpowers" or buildups of nuclear missiles. The background was the slide into fascism and corporate control, the same slide that has already ended in the perpetual war that resulted from 9/11. The disappearance of the previous PM's plane was about to be used as an ready-made "false flag".
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