| How the world is led in 2017 | |||
| Hand-Wringing Leftie Wetwipes | Inneffective Iechnocrats | Corrupt Dictators | Divisive Populists |
| Trudeau - Canada | May - UK | Xi - China | Trump - US |
| Macron - France | Merkel - German | Putin - Russia | Netanyahu - Israel |
| Varadkar - Ireland | Gentiloni - Italy | King Salman - Saudi | Erdogan - Turkey |
| Rutte - Netherlands | Turnbull - Australia | Zuma - South Africa | Modi - India |
| Michel -Belgium | Temer - Brazil | Kim - N Korea | Abe - Japan |
| Solberg - Norway | Jae-in Moon - S Korea | Poroshenko- Ukraine | Rajoy - Spain |
| Maduro - Venezuela | Tsiparas Greece | ||
| Orban - Hungary | |||
So here is my rough guide to the world as it stands. Sadly, I could not think of a category for good governance nor a list of people who could fit in it!
What do you all think, comments in the comments
Does the leaders 'effectiveness' increase from the left to right column?
ReplyDeleteSo, Crocodile Mnangagwa then ...
ReplyDeleteWetwipe, I suppose
BTW, Macron will be well pissed off by your assessment system, there is no category for Son of a God
The most cursory reading of history will tell you that it was always thus. The world is run by the kind of people who think they can and should run the world. 99% of them are wrong.
ReplyDeleteDon Cox
Effective technocrats : Lee Hsien Loon (Singapore)
ReplyDeleteIt's such a joy living here - politics free. The only place in the world where they worry about the brain drain TO the state...
Can we please place a moratorium on the word "populist"? I had to stop reading a piece by, I think, Fraser Nelson the other day because of his lazy assumption that populist = crypto-nazi and is axiomatically someone that all right-thinking people should abhor. But where does that place the late Hugo Chavez, who was wildly popular in his day?
ReplyDeleteWhere would you stick jezza?
ReplyDeleteno, don't answer that.
I think you've nailed it CU, I'd put Rajoy in poppinjay wannabe totalitarian nutter - special category and similarly the Tehran comedians, Thai generalissimos and most of South America fits.
It looks like Viktor Orban is the only good guy, still waiting to see what the boy Austrian Kurz is all about.
mrs may, on her I just shake my head, not bad for a CoE rudderless flunky who just wanted to be noticed and listened to and ordered about.
Split "Corrupt Dictators" into effective and ineffective??
ReplyDeleteZuma: waste of space
Is Erdogan in the right column??
Trump, Netanyahu (and Putin who is not shown) should have their own category as Kleptocrats or at least allowing a Kleptocracy to exist.
ReplyDeleteBut you have to hand it to these guys for being smart enough to get paid for stealing a whole country.
Trump and Orban hardly go with the others, being positive.
ReplyDeleteHas any of those "technocrats" mastered a techno in his life?
ReplyDeleteThink you needed another column
ReplyDelete"Billy liar"
For trump / orban/ possibly szydlo and su chi
No Jean-Claude Juncker, Donald Tusk, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Mario Draghi, Martin Schulz ?
ReplyDeleteThey are our democratically elected Presidents you know.
Actually, if this is 'people who have influence over many lives elected or Not'
ReplyDeleteHow about Mark Zuckerberg and Sergei be In?
"Split "Corrupt Dictators" into effective and ineffective??"
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Xi and Vlad aere light years away from Zuma, Maduro and Poroshenko. Xi is overseeing huge increases in Chinese power.
Ghaddafi would have been in there too, did a fair bit for Libyans, but the West stabbed him in the back(side). Kim may not be doing much for Koreans, but he learned from Ghadaffi's fate.