Unemployment is mounting by thousands, even tens of thousands, a day in the United Kingdom. Work is the basis of a decent life. As the first article of the Italian Constitution declares:
Italy is a democratic republic, founded on work.
The United Kingdom, in the absence of a Constitution, must make do with its permanent-power seeking government's substitute, whose first declaration is:
We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.
New Labour is also intent on distracting our attention from the abject failures of their economic and financial policies. While hundreds of billions of pounds have been proffered to banks to repair their balance sheets and save them from bankruptcy in the hope of preserving a payments system (surely that could have been ensured more cheaply) relatively tiny sums are promised to assuage the giant of idleness. £500 million for job creation and 'apprenticeships' and £30 billion for the lending function to firms that the richly re-sourced banks refuse to take up.
And we are all supposed to be looking at plans for future rectification of social inequalities worsened under twelve years of New Labour. We are not supposed to be looking at the effects of horrifying levels of unemployment on all and any kind of equality.
Pretending to some kind of 'constitutional' requirement that only a sitting prime minister can call a general election in a country where any constitutional vestiges have been swept away by a torrent of authoritarian legislation is a measure of the abuse of democracy under which we now suffer. The conditions under which Tony Blair was elected in 2005 are remote and irrelevant. The present regime has no democratic mandate, no economic competence claim, no political, legal or moral stance than can justify further refusal of an election.
The people want a return to full employment. The rest is secondary. They must choose the means and express their confidence in their government to achieve full employment through the vote.
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HG: Is revolution, civil commotion or assassination among the possible alternatives?
I am beginning to think you should change the name of your blog to "Voice(s) in the Wilderness".
I don't think so, Nomad. At least I hope not. Voting is to avoid fighting in the streets isn't it?
At the moment we are being prevented from using our votes to better our chances in clearing up the mess New Labour has made. As you point out, it's even very difficult to express this obvious need in any mass communication system. I can't imagine the BBC underlining the democratic deficit the country is suffering at the moment. Lots of voices can be heard though, and they are here, not in any wilderness despite New Labour's control freakery and proaganda manipulations.
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