Have you watched an old black and white film where the peasants revolt and march on the liege Lord’s castle with pitch-forks, lit torches, hoes and shovels?
Well, is it not time for the peasants in modern Britain to do the same in a metaphorical manner? The current state of politics in this country, the situation in Parliament, the seat of our governance, is certainly worse that I can ever remember.
I do not wish to take an anti-political party stance as I believe all the current parties sitting in there are a shower of hypocritical no necks. They are the most conceited, condescending and arrogant bunch of no marks. They take centre stage in demonstrating to the hardworking peoples of this great nation just how bad things have got in the cess pit that is Parliament. I doubt there is a spine to be found among them; such is the funding and chaos of the NHS we would be lucky to find a working MRI scanner to be able to find one.
The Scots have no other record. Other than their independence, they offer nothing to the country they serve. In Scotland the good people do not want independence; they just seek and demand good governance. It is surely time for the Prime Minister to tell them to go and have their independence referendum, if nothing else but to shut them up and stop their bleating.
The Liberal Democrats have, to be fair, held their nerve and failed to blink. The second referendum they demand with every breath, of course, would be a betrayal of the British people and their democracy that would set us back many years, if indeed the system of governance we currently have could ever recover from such an act. They are in all truth irrelevant.
The Labour party are in trouble. Make no mistake their silence and failure to act as an effective opposition is not borne out of any plan to play hide and seek. They do not toil under the impression that they are waiting to see what happens each day.
No, the Labour party is lost. They do not have a credible plan to pull this country back from the brink. The EU are no more likely to strike a new deal with the socialist doctrine of Comrade Corbyn than they would be with the cast of any pantomime currently running. It is pure folly, but of course in opposition you can say anything from the comfort of knowing you will not have to follow through with your falsehoods.
I suspect in private that many Labour MPs go home and kick the proverbial cat in anger and frustration at the inability of their leader to proffer any kind of opposition that is not risible. At the weekly PMQs, Corbyn has missed so many open goals he should play centre forward for Bradford City (my home team that are not doing well).
They all collectively forget, when they denigrate and put down this country with their projects of fear and gloom, that the institution they would in the majority keep us in, the EU, is also broken. Italy, Greece, Spain and France have enormous troubles, socio economically and culturally. Germany is not far behind. The only member state of the EU that seems to have got it right is Poland, they have closed all borders to Muslim infiltration. They have taken no refugees and still avail themselves of everything financially that they can lay their hands on. They have not had a single terrorist attack. Their economy is booming.
The EU has plans, bearing in mind it makes nothing, it manufactures nothing. The EU has positioned itself whereby it simply orders the 28 member states what to do, when to do it and how to do it. The EU charges those member states for the privilege of doing so and they pay!
The EU is the most successful Cosa Nostra in history. From the Mafia they have learned well. Of course, if you challenge them and have the temerity to say no, their punishment is swift and very severe.
Their plans are for complete integration and the surrender of most powers from member states to its supremacy. They have plans to set taxation levels and impose spending controls throughout. They are planning and implementing their own army. As demonstrated in Paris recently they will spare no quarter to those peasants daring to stand up to them with or without pitchforks. The gillet jeunes were metered out beatings and assaults on a scale very rarely recorded and distributed on mainstream media. A full and complete army at the disposal of these unelected despots should be very worrying indeed.
The order of governance must change completely for any meaningful change to the lives of those peasants who are ignored, called thick, subjugated and robbed, yet courted every five years for a vote. It will take though a strong leader and a great will of the peasants derived out of anger and frustration to bring about such a change. Is there such a person? Is there the will?
Time will tell.
There is a peaceful revolt of us peasants at the moment on the petition to Leave the EU without a deal. It stands at over 198,000 at 11pm on 17/12 and will be over 200,000 by midnight. We need to get it to at least 250,000 with the next target 500,000.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963
My MP is an able and capable guy, but he is a Tory, and I have told him that I will never support them again. In all conviction he told me that FPTP gave firm Governments, and PR will inevitably make for coalitions. ( Big deal ! and so what ! ). He would have it that Government has to be in the hands of those best suited to the task, but the present Government has fallen down on the job, with a useless leader. HOW DARE THEY go to the Country and ask for the people’s decision upon the EU, and then discard the Democratic decision that the people arrived at ! HOW DARE THEY hold a mindset that is reminiscent of the Peasants Revolt of 1381, where a young King agreed with those items Wat Tyler put forward, but the ‘King’s Men’ killed Tyler and many more. This smacks of Mrs May’s ‘Brexit means Brexit’, while all the time ensuring that we don’t leave the EU ! A giant change is required to the standing of MPs. They have to be told that they are ‘Public Servants’, and are required to carry out the wishes of the voters ! While doing this, it would be wise to educate the Civil Service along the same lines too ! The ‘Establishment’ has to be trimmed back to simply make Government work, rather than assist with Government policy ! With all that is wrong, HOW DARE THEY see it as their job to hold on to a discredited vote system, that stands against common sense, the rules of Mathematics, and the wishes for proper Democracy. – MUCH EDUCATION IS REQUIRED TO SET MPs ON THE RIGHT TRACK !
REPAIR OF DEMOCRACY.
Srep1 Ban parachuting of REPRESENTATIVES ( MPs ) into a constituanies . They will immediately stop being your representative and become liars and thieves. As accused in parliament in the last few days ( Friday morning surgery is pure acting.)
Step 2 Clean up manifestos and make them legally binding.
Step 3 No law, statute,tax, directive, regulation without debate and names of supporting Members.
Srtep 4. Control of fraud. Lobbying,Inflation, Q.E. and other legalised swindles to defraud the people.
Steps 5 to 10 but this would be perfection as a start of cleaning up the aristocracy of money and power.
Please read Martin Cruttwell,s comment below, for better and more erudite expansion on my comment. No doubt there’ll be others…. Good.
The current system is rotten and I do not believe any band-aids could help. I also could propose a few improvements (limited years to be a MP, MPs recall system, separation of law-makers from executive etc.). We need to look for something more sophisticated i.e. direct democracy based on modern technology where all citizens can have voice and vote on matters that are their interest.
TGS you seem to be putting the finger on the Aristocracy, but I think the University educated “ELITE” are just, if not more culpable.
(I don`t intend to include all University educated, I only mean the self serving brainwashed ones, the ones blessed with chronic Culpable Marxism (PC) diarrhoea for instance)
For “culpable” read “cultural
Sorry!!
We can solve this brexit problem overnight. All those wishing to live an eu utopia can exercise their rights to free movement and shift their asses over the channel. Bye bye Anna Soubary and Mandelson and the kinocks. No hard feelings but don’t come back. All those wanting a free independent country stand proud. Simples.
You can find yellow jackets site on Facebook…..it could be the start of a popular rising….they started on Friday in London by blocking 3 bridges for twenty minutes at a time…
Dear Stephen may I post this please on http://www.csr2020uk.org.uk ?
A lot of folk are pacifists. They wouldnt don a yellow vest or join a protest even if their families were suffering. Govt is getting away with it because many are too scared to take action. They have tied us up with hate laws, lies, deception and outright insult. The media broadcast dreadful lies and fail to report on major events. They laugh in our faces. They really do think they have won and do not believe that we will do anything to stop them. It will need millions on the streets and not just in London….it has to be all over.
Pacifists in the last war was largely a means of avoiding the war and was used often as a means of working full time against the war effort and for communism
My Yellow Jacket is ready and waiting!
Sirs,
It is a great idea that you have changed your tactics with a new paper. As your correspondent said, the parties in Parliament are a shower and we can now confidently unite to expose the true but hidden nature of the political party system without annoying each other..
First, It is a fatal mistake to concentrate solely on the economic effects of Brexit.
England’s greatest export to the world is our concept of liberty under the law as provided by Magna Carta 1215, specifically Trial by Jury, which is how the people rule by deciding which law is just or unjust and by annulling a bad law, cause it to be extracted from the statue book. This is phenomenal people power of a very stable kind and is called ”legal democracy”. Too few of us know of it!!!!
In contrast we are tricked into voting for a party system of “suffrage” which our politicians misname “democracy”, which requires us to consent to one or other of their pre-arranged manifesto “packages” which they allow us to have, but from which there is no opt out.
We blindly transfer this phenomenal power to the politicians to legislate as they like and then complain that they are not listening to us. It must be increasingly obvious that swopping parties makes no difference, leading to voter disgust and loss of interest.
It gets even worse, because in 1973 this “elective dictatorship”, at that time under Conservative control, using familiar arm-twisting methods, subordinated us and our Queen to the open dictatorship of the Napoleonic legal system,more correctly the EUSSR, where there is no protection of trial by jury and Magna Carta and where bureaucrats and government officials make thousands of laws and enforce them through the European Arrest Warrant so that no Common Law testing of the evidence is allowed before extradition to a European jail, as Julian Assange and others found out.
You don’t require much imagination to feel what life in such a jail would be like, waiting months in a queue behind real criminals for a judge to attend your case. If readers think this doesn’t apply to them they should realise that European social law is getting increasingly intrusive enforced by a heavily armoured police so alien to England!!!.
Those 16 year-olds, and their misguided elders, who want a vote and think the grass is greener in Europe are as ignorant of their priceless heritage which is being stolen from them. We can do fabulously if we are free again. That is blindingly obvious.
As Churchill once said” if you will not fight for the right when you can win without bloodshed, …..there may come a time when it is better to fight and die than live as slaves”
Martin Cruttwell
North Yorkshire john.cruttwell@sfr.fr
Stephen, I just have one beef with your analysis and that is with the NHS, I went with my husband yesterday to an appointment at a big London hospital, they were so efficient we were in and out in approx 30 minutes and that included an xray and two consultations, a MRI scan was requested which will be done in six weeks followed by another consultation 2 weeks after that. What is wrong with that? every winter we hear the hospitals are on the bring due to a flu epidemic, personally, I don’t believe it all and feel it is scare mongering again from the media. Everything else you say I agree with.
Its a mistake to assume all hospitals are the same. Some are better than others. You seem forunate to live near one that happens to be efficient and well run.
It is also a mistake to assume that various ‘teams are the same, a visit to the the same hospital when a different team are in charge can be an eye opener, you may well have been fortunate as were several friends and family until they found out the hard way that not all ‘teams’ and hospitals are the same.
Indeed Pauline; My personal experience recently is of excellent medical procedures spoilt by totally shambolic administration and the work of dedicated and competent staff marred by others who are aggressive towards patients and frequently lazy too.
It’s extraordinarily difficult to get rid of a bad management, anywhere, from Parliament to a hospital.
My local hospital has been failing for years, been in special measures, claim “lessons have been learned” etc. but the chaos continues because the same fools are still in charge.