Democratic Issues

On Friday the BBC published an article outlining some of the comments made by various MPs from the three main parties on the arrest of Damian Green over supposed leaks from the Home Office.

Now, what I have found particularly interesting about the whole Damian Green saga (which I think has been completely blown out of all proportion by our typically hopeless media) is the outcry from the likes of Nick Clegg and an assortment of Liberal Democrat, Labour Party MPs.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg told the BBC in an interview that he was deeply shocked by the arrest of Mr Green and claimed the event was a ‘mayday warning’ for democracy in Britain, saying:

This is something you might expect from a tin-pot dictatorship, not in a modern democracy.

The fact is though, like so many of our MPs that aimlessly waft around in Parliament, Nick Clegg only becomes interested in ‘democracy’ when the safety of the increasingly irrelevant Westminster bubble is punctured.

What do the likes of Nick Clegg really know of democracy? Where were he and others when our powers of self-government and democracy were being given away to the EU? Oh yes, that’s right, they were there in Parliament voting to give it away.

Bearing the above in mind; the speed with which our MPs of all parties have rallied to one another’s side and in the process ignored the real issue of our increasingly non-existent democracy betrays the truth that in fact MPs from all parties often have more in common with each other than they do the voting electorate.

Non-Event Alert

And the winner of this week’s non-event goes to the resignation of the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, who is almost certain to be replaced by someone equally useless and incompetent.

Most people should have realised by now that many of our right honourable members are prone to corruption and breaking the laws they themselves created, especially with regard to party funding.

I explained back in December why this is really not as important an issue as it will be made out to be. Yet, unfortunately and without really surprising anyone, the British mainstream media will be on full alert tomorrow, ready to cram their papers full of pointless discussion and analysis on this non-event until everyone is completely sick and tired of the whole issue.

This will undoubtedly be at the expense of highlighting far more important issues such as a certain EU Constitution making its way through Parliament at the moment – though having said that, the British media were unlikely to have discussed that anyway - but there is even less chance of it happening now.

More Unwanted EU Meddling

Not content to constantly interfere and meddle in just our lives in this part of the world; the EU has recently taken to interfering in the politics and remit of other international nations.

In August, the EU Commission sent a message to the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, strongly urging him to abolish the death penalty in his state and cease all future executions of those on death row.

The Commission’s note stated that, ‘There is no evidence to suggest that the use of the death penalty serves as a deterrent against violent crime and the irreversibility of the punishment means that miscarriages of justice, which are inevitable in all legal systems, cannot be redressed.’

Apart from there being plenty of evidence to suggest that the death sentence acts as a very good deterrent of violent crime and murder, what exactly has the legal process and laws of a self-governing state such as Texas got to do with the European Union? Not much is the answer.

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Here’s A Thought…

Back in 1945, Winston Churchill, then still Prime Minister, made the supposedly heavily criticised claim that if the Labour Party won those elections, they would ‘fall back on some kind of Gestapo’ to subjugate and control the electorate.

How prophetic. He was completely correct in his observation – except for the year. I think he must actually have been describing our current Labour Government with their torrent of legislation criminalising the ordinary person, attempts to spy on us night and day with compulsory identity cards, and monitoring us with secret organisations such as SOCA.