Listlessly We Drift
As the relevance of our Westminster Parliament subsides into mediocrity and the process of ever closer union continues with unrelenting certainty, our capacity to set right what once went so wrong recedes by the day.
The sad reality of politics in modern Britain is that parties, administrations, and the briefcase wielding faceless suits who aimlessly wander the corridors of power may seem with unwillingness and uncertainty to alternate or vary on occasion and from time to time - but the policies and outcomes which govern us remain ever constant.
We now reside in a world in which opposition is silenced, traditional freedoms are curtailed and the slow, quiet and subtle processes of our real government continue to go widely unreported. In fact so far removed are these events from the history of our once proud nation which was built on the values of freedom and self-determination; a country that once ruled the waves and on whose Empire the sun never set, that it is probably almost unrecognisably alien to those of only a few generations previous to my own.
Time and the collective stupidity and inadequacy of many politicians have taken its toll on the British people. Of what little national sovereignty our Parliament still retains – and there is very little of any real significance - is stifled by our governing political elite who have more in common with each other than they do the voting electorate. Westminster has become a hollowed out institution existing only as façade of accountability, as a playground for the metropolitan classes and its chambers are filled with empty dull husks who continue to linger in its stale air of unhealthy democratic decay long after they willingly and uncaringly voted away our rights.
In Europe, the EU Parliament remains as ever meaningless and verbose. It too has little power; real power and authority of course lies in the hands of the unelected bureaucrats and EU Commissioners over which the British people have no say, choice or control. It appears that slowly but surely we listlessly drift into an age of vagary and post-democracy, perhaps without most people even noticing. Has our indifference condemned us? Do we only have ourselves to blame?
