Niebuhr wondered if the White House clergy were not guilty
of perpetuating complacency through a
failure to realize that all
governments stand under God's absolute standards
of justice.
At the end I go through a list
of feminists, Bengali socialists and British liberals who are disillusioned by the
failure of the Labour
government to
stand by them rather than their enemies.
«We have an unelectable leader, and if we lose elections then the price
of our
failure is paid by the working people
of this country and their families who do not have a
government to
stand up for them.
Ezekwesili, who emphasized the power citizens wield, maintained that unless Nigerians wake up and
stand against the «
failure of government» the country would remain the same.
«freedom
of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival
of the fittest, the fundamentalism
of religion, the oppression
of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation
of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics
of their behaviour, the mocking
of the role
of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage
of government, the
failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring
of education and health needs for the majority, the
failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship
of wealth for some at the expense
of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time
government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just
stand back and watch it»
Has been involved in litigation involving multiple damages claims based on Francovich arising from the
failure of Government to implement EU directives in the field
of insurance, financial services, tax and also in both
stand alone and follow - on actions for damages arising from cartels for example in the vitamins cartel and the air cargo cartel.