Continuing to hold power by the Brown junta is now bordering on the illegal. Certainly it has crossed the line into the immoral and deliberately destructive. Other governments have survived great unpopularity and been re-elected, not least because an intelligent electorate has seen that economic and social change was not engendered by government but that its after effects were being coped with effectively by government; that is not what we are facing.
The United Kingdom is sinking under persistence in false analysis, technical incompetence, intellectual hubris and undeclared corrupt agendas practiced by a tiny group of dug-in fanatics committed to themselves and a burnt out ideology. They are sheltering behind a misinterpretation of constitutional practice, and the obscurity of means to enforce redress. It is not good enough to argue that matters are not sufficiently serious for an intervention by the Head of State to obtain a general election. There are two non violent courses to be taken: the current Leader of the Labour party can be forced to act by the disclosure of the myriad 'compromises' that any political power holder makes, with much of that pressure coming from the Conservative Party - who cannot hang fire any longer as they assess their own advantage; or that book can remain closed, but our constitutional claims to democratic representation are enforced, in our curious 'constitutional monarchy', by the Monarch in the role of defender of our democracy.
The electorate cannot be subjected to a 'we have lost but nothing will be left standing' choice by a vindictive Brown and his losers. Already eleven years of financial mayhem for profit takers, accompanied by 'social market' agendas in conformity with European Union 'voice' strategies in economic and social affairs for the rest, has left a disaster. People are losing their jobs, their housing, their health treatment, their and their children's social and educational provision, their consumption levels, the worth of their earnings, their standard of life. Much of this, as has been demonstrated widely and repeatedly, lies with the activities of the Brown cabal. Desperate times call for the use of the toughest of measures and of reserve powers.
We cannot be expected to accept being governed by a driven madman because of a constitutional convention on calling elections that has both been ignored by our unelected current Prime Minister and is out-ranked by the preservation of the general interest and the well being of the people, and the preservation of our democratic state.
Another year and a half of this viciously irrelevant and incompetent response to the economic and political security of us all will leave too few, for democracy, able to prevent themselves being cowed into an authoritarian, poverty-stricken subservience.
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HG, please keep your hair on. Westminster elections are now irrelevant. Westminster debates have as much effect on the direction of the country as the seaside Punch and Judy show.
The Lisbon treaty comes into effect (regardless of the opposition of the majority of the people of most of the European nations) in 2009. Thereafter the only elections that will count are to the Toy Parliament in Brussels/Strasbourg and to the nine Euro-Regions of England. And they won't count for much.
Westminster has given away sufficient of our powers to be declared redundant. Brown will go down as our last Prime Minister unless there is an armed insurrection. And that is why the army is fully stretched in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Yokel, I cannot agree with your view. A general election would be fought on relations with the European Union, the regulating of financial and economic affairs, civil liberties and their defence, and the restructuring of relationships within the countries that make up the United Kingdom.
There will be proposals for preventing unhousing swathes of the population, preventing their collapse into unpayable debt, and the lifting of the tax burden from the poorest, not to mention the wage-earning population.
It might be hoped that the simple and basic proposition that the best welfare system is secure and decently rewarded employment should be reinstalled as a goal of government economic policy. With that many policies to rid us of the creation of a client state and its attendant miseries would follow, and the last eleven years would be drained as a poison from our social system.
You are right that most of the enabling of policy choices that used to rest in Westminster has been ceded, which is why there must be a rebirth of the relations with the EU. But this refusal of New Labour's goals and current achievements is not anything to do with force.
Westminster still settles who rules. And we are being improperly denied the chance to tell New Labour that they cannot. They know this and veiled in pseudo-constitutionality hang on until democratic process can be formally side-lined as it has (and you are right in that) effectively since Blair was ousted by the threat of criminal proceedings.
We must expect the Conservatives to stop pussyfooting around for minor advantage, and force the general election now.
Yokel, you make good points, but it is precisely because of them that there is serious trouble brewing. Ordinary Brits (in which I include the entire population of the whole country) are fairly quiescent and just want to be left in peace to get on with their lives.
But the refusal to grant the referendum despite it being promised in the NuLab manifesto and the sneaky underhand way in which Brown and his clique forced through the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty (seemingly with the connivance of the Head of State - others in a similar position have refused outright to add their signatures) have greatly angered, and finally opened the eyes of, the vast majority of the population to what has been happening over the past 11 years, and millions do not like what they see and regard these actions as a complete betrayal of everything the UK has traditionally stood for.
Nonetheless, many/most people still believe in the rule of parliamentary law and our traditional conventions and practices. My main regret, and I suspect that of millions of others, is that the current Conservative leadership is showing absolutely no signs of picking up on the ever growing anger of the population and harnessing it to bring about change. If Cameron does not get his finger out pdq there really will be blood in the streets before long.
HG you do delude yourself.
Jim Callaghan (remember him?) was equally discredited and incompetent, and couldn't even command a majority in The House, but he hung on until he managed to lose a formal vote of confidence. Whatever fate awaits the One-Eyed Bandit, it is not that.
He will hang on until the last possible moment, which I believe is actually some time in 2010.
You may grind your teeth all you like.
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