This pantomime of choice has created a mess, and an awful paradox | Deborah Orr

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inequality is a factor. The more money and education you have, the better the choices you can make

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. Run Amok, but politicians like all the same. This week, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommendation of elective cesarean sections in the NHS is a good example. Can be used with a cock-eyed in praise of the idea of ??"women's right to choose." But its main effect would be even more to increase the choice of the pantomime of the NHS is already obliged to provide. Have all the extra time had to explain to every pregnant woman that one of your options is elective cesarean section - regardless of the additional cost of actually making some -. And many hours to accumulate cheap

I use the word "pantomime" knowingly. Much of the "choice" offered by the NHS is an illusion, a waste of time and painful for patients. As a breast cancer patient recently, I made many "options", and many rooms have sitting in my options are presented to me by many consultants. I would opt for "I'm in your hands. Whatever you think best. "But he had no choice in the election.

A breast cancer patient is told in detail, for example, what are its many options for breast reconstruction are. I've never reconstructed breast. I have no experience in this field. But when I asked an expert, who had rebuilt many breasts, which in its opinion, considers that it would be better in my case, I would say that sometimes happily, sometimes the complicity (in a nod to the absurdity of our situation): "... Oh, no, I can set the options you have to decide "

had my belly fat together in a heap and pleaded "not enough" in vogue in my time the chest of currant giant half a dozen. In other appointments - you decide to chemotherapy, to decide whether or not radiation, the real choice - between surviving and dying - remained delicately explicit

options are truly important and meaningful choices. In a better, stronger local economy by providing jobs for local people and local markets for local entrepreneurs, consumers could choose from a number of local baked goods. In this world, our world of infinite possibilities that were closed because they can not compete with suppliers of vertigo, looting and supermarkets in the world, primarily by choosing small. Who is really expert in olive oil to make an informed choice among 200 olive oils? And what is the value of an option when real income is declining, and most of us will simply "choose" something expensive?

election also created political chaos. Decades have resulted in the election "is not possible." European leaders know what to do but not how to re-election when they did. The original author of this trope is unknown to me recently, but careful observation. This is why Greece has come the idea of ??a referendum on the rescue of the euro area. It is also the reason why the bailout euro area itself is relatively weak (compared to the enormity of the problem). Angela Merkel is aware of the mood of the German people, who are unhappy, to say the least, about what they see as a bailout to punish Germany for its industry and Greece for their indolence.

• a few weeks ago, the BBC's Emily Maitlis suggested, referring to the crisis in the euro area, there was a problem with "democracy". That sounds odd - a form of ordinary voters blame for the catastrophe of their leaders did. But the saddest thing is that it is an accurate description of the place in Europe and the United States they are now. What is democracy when there is no alternative, when no other option?

This is the terrible paradox

. In some respects, democracy - liberal democracy - was hoist by his own trap. On behalf of the election, financial services were deregulated. Choice promotes competition. Consumer benefits of competition. This was the idea. It did not work terribly well. The main beneficiary was the monopoly capitalism, not just in finance. The escalating fuel bills, for example, are, according to Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, the failure of consumers not being diligent enough in the election of the investigation.

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inequality is a factor. This sad fact was well illustrated in Britain in recent decades. The more money and education you have, the better the choices you can make and to pay, and his position of power and privilege is enhanced. This is clearly visible especially in education, not only in terms of v's private state, but also conservative reforms of 1980 and 1990, public education.

the conservative revolution designed to transform schools, the last time, was built in the choice of parents. Schools compete for the patronage of the parents. All had improved. People forget how some schools had become the end of the last Conservative administration. Occasionally, a school that only a minority manage to send a single figure of his children in the world as an important qualification to all. In schools, the election meant that, overall, most parents engaged in some places, leaving the rest to be inhabited by children of less involved parents. The gap between more and less educated in this country has steadily increased since then.
Work made an effort to compensate within a system that naturally generates inequality. But he made no effort to change the system itself. Rankings remained. The evidence remained. Teaching to the test remained, and so the idea that education for the achievement of educational outcomes, do not feed the curious minds anxious.

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