A Horseradish
Monday 13th April 2015 11:36pm [Edited]
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Quote: Gussie Fink Nottle @ 14th April 2015, 12:34 AM BST
Right-ho,
I see, it's a draw between Brussels and the evil City of London as to who is destroying democracy.
Well, I see it from a slightly different angle.
Remember Blair's credit card sized list of easy pledges in 97? I do.
Half a dozen or so nifty policies.
In 13 years of Labour government following that landslide victory, our friends then introduced 4500 new offences. (it's an official figure)
I guess they just couldn't fit all that onto their pledge card, poor chaps, and hence reluctantly needed to keep us in the dark.
This is hardly a party political view of mine. The other side has continued on as maniacally as did Blair's boys.
But telling the voters about five or six things you intend to do, then set about introducing 1500 or so measures in a parliamentary term might just be seen as a little deceitful.
The public is being given a handful of irrelevant headline policies to determine their choices. Thereafter the motherlode of things to be done by Whitehall bears little to no resemblance to the issues upon which the election was fought.
One might say that we may as well draw the winners by lot and then just let them do as they wish. It seems to be the modus operandi.
The only other option is to wait for them to introduce what they promised, then to storm parliament with guns and ask them to quietly vacate the premises before they set about doing anything else.
But at that rate, governments would last about a week or two.
Mind you, that might be a good thing.
And who knows? Perhaps the future belongs to the 'We'll-leave-things-as-they-are-Party'.
If anything, they would make for an interesting coalition partner. 
You are determined to encourage that ten page essay from me aren't you!
The option to wait for them to introduce what they promised, then to storm parliament with guns and ask them to quietly vacate the premises before they set about doing anything else. I recognise it as it has a precedent. Ukraine. It will, of course, require a significant American presence on St Stephen's Green. Innocuous looking women - who in actuality represent the President while also being married to geopolitical strategists - handing out bread rolls to skinheads and students from a basket. The dear Dutch setting up a television station on the night before urging absolute mayhem in the name of democracy. Those formerly known as Blairites will be very much in evidence as will the Miliband faction, Unite, all Lib Dems except Charlie Kennedy, most Conservative MPs, and several wayward Greens. I predict "the expansionist" Jack Straw will be the one wielding the mace from outside. Well, why not?
(The above scenario only applies when the SNP tries to govern Britain unilaterally - ie not until 2016)
As a footnote, I never voted for Blair and his neo-liberal Governments. Social Democracy has never been seen in this country. Only in Scandinavia and West Germany. I say "bring back Willy Brandt".
