The late Labour MP, Tony Benn, had a very good observation about politics:
"In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system."
So here we are, a snap election and the main parties are lying through their teeth, putting up smoke and mirror type arguments, coming up with totally unworkable policies and talking about POWER. They don't want to do what they are meant to do they want, and they openly state it, POWER!
We, the public do not seem to realise what Tony Benn's words actually mean. The answer to every question he sets is US or ME. It only works because we let them and these people are meant to be our servants. It's only that I don't want to sell my soul to become a politician that I vote for someone else to do it. They think they have a right to govern over me but hold on, that's not how it is meant to work at all. But here we are, again and again.
Why we put up with this two party system, these useless managers who would never be able to hold down a real job is beyond me. To quote Edmond Blackadder, "I wouldn't trust any of them to sit the right way up on a toilet!".
The great British public perhaps do not understand that these "Politicians" govern BY CONSENT that's the deal and if you take away your consent, en masse, then what will they do? We need to become ungovernable and we need to beak the system so it does what we want it to do.
I like that most of my friends think that I am a Conservative and yet whilst I lean towards those principles I find that we live in a world where the tail wags the dog so to speak. The minority have a major say in how the majority live and that, is not the way it works although it does at the moment. There will be a reckoning as I recollect the bullies at School all got their comeuppance in one way or another. There's always a bigger fighter and revenge by victims make take many years but it often times occurs. I'll leave that there but eventually karma has a way of resolving these things.
In business too, the incompetent and useless managers get found out albeit some wiggle their way up and out many will eventually (not fast enough for me) be rewarded for their bad deeds. It takes just one of their charges to expose things but it can't be done in the way I'd like but by stealth works well generally and the satisfaction to see the mighty fallen is emblematic of "revenge is a dish best served cold."
Where am I going with this? The "people" whinge and moan and yet they perpetuate the state of politics and do not have the courage (or the wit perhaps) to do something different. I have in the past few elections. If everyone withdrew their consent it would be interesting - I cannot for a million years imagine it would happen as people are terrified of a labour Government and would hold their noses and vote for Conservatives. The Greens and Lib Dems have shown themselves to be two sandwiches short of a picnic with bonkers plans made to make us all poorer. Socialism the way they operate it would soon bankrupt us all.
You can spoil your ballot paper - it gets counted as a spoiled vote and so when they state the results these are also noted. I see one other person and I did this in a recent council election! It's not enough of us. There maybe a protest vote available to Reform party but we wait to see whether this will happen. Unfortunately there are no charismatic leaders and nothing inspiring at all in these corrupt, worthless, morally bankrupt people.
Perhaps the great British public will awaken from their slumbers and actually do something. I doubt it though.
