Democracy isn’t working
It isn’t working because a) most potential voters don’t know/care about issues and b) most of those who wheedle their way into power don’t listen.
Yesterday’s by-election in Glasgow North East was the ideal opportunity for the good people of that area to come out in force and tell the worst British government in living memory, perhaps ever, what they thought of them.
Despite the polling stations being opened for fifteen hours, only one third of the electorate could be bothered getting off their fat armchairs to go and vote. Considering the postal votes, the disinterest on the day was even greater.
The turnout figure of 33% is dire enough, but six out of ten who voted, voted for Labour. The party of war; the party of traitors; the party that stole the 10% tax band from the poorest in the constituency; the party that introduced thousands of new laws to help keep us in our place.
Democracy is great: if you’re a control freak traitor (and they’re not restricted to New Labour), because most people do not understand what is really going on and will still ‘exercise their democratic duty’ and vote for you.
We could do with a proper constitution listing inalienable rights and which no future government has the authority to change.
Stewart,
‘We could do with a proper constitution listing inalienable rights and which no future government has the authority to change.’
We’ve already got them. They are quietly ignored (by the ignorant, funnily enough).
The English Bill of Rights in1689 was the model for the American Constitution and in 1215 Magna Carta created the idea that absolutely no-one, especially those in power, was above or below the Law. These Acts contain clauses that mean that they can never, ever be repealed and include instructions for dealing with those who try to repeal them. They refer to attempts to change or abandon them as treason.
That the Lab Gov repealed the laws on the execution of traitors is not surprising.
Hi EV,
I was thinking along the lines of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, i.e. so well known that nobody could dispute them. Although, tragically, the manufactured ‘war on terror’ and other enterprises are eating away at them.
If the traitors don’t fancy being executed, maybe a fate worse than death can be arranged…
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw, (Man and Superman)
Surely the only reason to have an election is to prove the polls right?
Welcome, Phil,
Unless people start waking up to the Lib/Lab/Con/EU Party sharpish, there probably won’t be many more elections.
Great Lets have a Sat night Tv prog where the politicians have 3 minutes to get their point over and then we can all vote on the phone .I know lets call it the XXX factor.
I once read a quote which said something along the lines of evil and corrupt men are put in power by good people who don’t vote. I accept that but since the Labour became a chamelon who is there left to vote for?
I think that either we have to vote en masse for smaller parties who care (which would make them bigger parties, ahem), or else properly hold to account our elected representatives in the L/L/C Party. I have failed in my duty to properly do the latter. Maybe we don’t have duties now, just ‘rights’. Not real rights, as in freedom from the state, but ‘rights’ over our neighbour who happens to be different.
If that doesn’t work, maybe Strictly Come Canvassing will help.
Can’t we just a revolution and start again?
I could be Emperor!
Forgot ‘have’. Oops!
EV,
We know what you meant.
“Can’t we just have a revolution and start again?”
It may be the only way to bring freedom and peace back to the country.
“I could be Emperor!”
Over my dead body!