Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Undemocratic voting


I happened to catch Andrea Leadsom on the news last night calling members of parliament who are organizing themselves in order to prevent a no-deal Brexit undemocratic. I nearly spat my cup of tea out all over the carpet! What utter hogwash, how on earth did such a dim politician get into the cabinet of the United Kingdom? I guess it's the age we live in; apparently you don't need to understand the finer details, or even the less finer details of the system of government that you are supposed to represent in order to be a leading member of it. For me this is akin to a player in the premier league not understanding the offside rule! Leadsom is either terminally dim or simply acting in a cynical and sinister way by attempting to change the definition of terms like "democracy" on the fly to suit her own narrative, it's "blasphemy" in disguise, don't agree? Then you're a traitor!

We've been here before with her, back in February in an astonishing statement she claimed that democracy was not about trying again until you get the result you want in reference to the possibility of holding a second referendum. If this were true then a couple of toffs would have had one vote at the first session of the first ever Parliament back in the 13th century and we'd all still be digging up their fields for 18 hours a day and receiving a turnip for our troubles. Surely this is the whole point of democracy, it's a process of continual change that never ends, this is the whole point of it and why it's vastly superior to a system governed by dictatorial or religious dogma that can never change.

We hear today that Boris wants Parliament suspended in September. In what seems to be a clear attempt to prevent MP's having time to organize opposition to a no-deal we are pretty close to having an unelected charlatan leading a party that will cause incalculable financial and cultural damage to the country whilst benefiting a tiny minority of billionaires wagering against a rational outcome and wishing to conceal their ill-gotten gains offshore sans-tax. This my friends, is most definitely not democracy!

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