Slimantics: The prospects of a powerless population
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All these decades later, Lord Acton’s claim still holds true: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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5 hours ago Jeremy Corbyn Power tends to corrupt, said Lord Acton. This two line quote, the second line being “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is far more well known, a hundred and fifty years later, than anything else Lord Acton ever did.
He was a politician, Lord Acton, a liberal MP for about half a decade. If he’d come by a bit more power himself, and thus a flash more corruption, he may have a more substantial legacy.
If power corrupts, and it certainly does, it is much easier for those who haven’t had very much power to point it out. This is what the Labour Party is up to at the moment with regard to the ongoing Greensill Capital scandal, doing its utmost to re-ignite the old Tory sleaze attacks that were so profitable for them as John Major’s government decayed then came to an end in the mid-1990s.
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