The Politics of Dancing

‘Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?’ Berthold Brecht Man is a social animal and consequently the human condition, for anyone who does not fall into the category of sociopath or psychopath, involves a life of negotiation, making compromises that are sometimes, and sometimes often, uncomfortable. This can be frustrating, on occasions even humiliating. Of course there are some things you should not compromise, basic principles you must establish for yourself. Still you rarely get all that you want. In politics negotiation and compromise are the very heart of the matter and when people get tired of compromise the door is opened for fanaticism. Thus after having lost an election, one it desperately needed to win, great numbers of Labour supporters [1] have lost confiden