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> All political decisions in western democracies have a hard limit of a four year time horizon. 5 years in the UK, though it's been a long time since there was
by jen20 4y ago
> All political decisions in western democracies have a hard limit of a four year time horizon.
5 years in the UK, though it's been a long time since there was a change in power between parties without a 10+ year stint in office first.
- highwaylights 4y agoYeah, but that limits decision making to about 4 years if you have 5 year election cycles. The last year you don’t want to piss off the voters so you have to be very sparse in getting anything done, so the last year in the election run up is spent pandering to as many people as possible rather than actually doing any of the real work. Even if in the end you get multiple terms in office, you were never guaranteed re-election, so you were forced to make short term plans regardless (to stop the other lot getting in instead).