Judgement Day
- Posted on the 5th March 2008
This evening MPs in the House of Commons will convene to effectively pass judgement on Britain’s adoption of the Lisbon Treaty.
The majority of Liberal Democrat MPs will negate on their election promise by abstaining in this crucial vote on a referendum amendment. Thus even when a small few more honest Labour MPs rebel against their party whip and attempt to uphold their own manifesto commitment, the Government will easily have its majority.
There will therefore be no referendum. The amendment will be struck down and the life-changing Lisbon Treaty which cannot even be altered by our own Parliament will continue on its rubberstamping journey towards the Lords.
And so it shall likely come to pass that in ratifying this treaty; this EU Constitution; this document cloaked in lies and deception; our Parliament and Government will with willingness and arrogance have broken its promise to the people of Britain.
In no more than a moment, hundreds of years of history will be undone. After two horrific World Wars in which millions died defending freedom and democracy, their sacrifice will have ultimately been in vain. By next week the event and the vote will be forgotten. Lost in time, like tears in rain.
Listlessly We Drift
- Posted on the 17th January 2008
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?
