The New Labour regime seems to be trying to drive the United Kingdom to such a financial and economic disaster that they will be 'forced' to suspend the normal electoral timetable in the face of a national emergency while they get on with the job of seeing us all through the global downturn.
Short of launching World War III, (and it isn't as if they and their 'global' allies have been unwilling to give it a go, even now the Near and Middle East is a theatre of war contained only by Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), there is no collapse in our country that New Labour has not brought about. From personal corruption and impropriety in public office, to instituting grotesque levels of socioeconomic inequality while covering the allocation of resources to the rich by permitting insufferable levels of debt to the poor, New Labour are it.
Ostensibly within eleven months there is to be a general election in the United Kingdom. It is a reliable assumption that Labour members of Parliament will not be returned as our representatives. Scotland will also return Nationalist MPs to Westminster for the last time. Whatever form Scottish independence takes - devolution developed to mere cooperation with England and Wales when and if it suits, to outright retaking of sovereignty, Scottish Labour will only recover when it is no longer vote fodder for Westminster and takes its place in an independent Scotland. Wales will not be voting to provide Westminster Labour with fodder either, although the MPs returned from the Welsh seats will be more heterogeneously 'other'.
As for England, apart from scarce London returns and Northern Rockland's client state vote, it's into the blue for Labour. Not deepest blue, there are some Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIPers, as well as antisleazers who may be elected in particularly depraved former Labour seats. But whatever happens there will never again be a monolithic Labour government. The best that could be hoped for is a Labour rump buttressed by immensely expensive coalitions with disruptive special interests. The Conservative coalition though, welded together by the prospect of power, stands a very good chance of unitary rule.
This was never supposed to happen. Europe was to deliver a social democratic future with jobs and careers for the boys, the United Kingdom of the Countries and the Regions under permanent SD administration, and the electorate safely ruled with the introduction of power by appointment and, at worst, election by a divisive voting system. But first France and Holland then, at the second go-round, Germany, the Czech and Polish Republics, and Ireland which has not even begun to run yet, moved Heaven's gates ever further from New Labour sinner's grasping hands. Now Heaven itself is to be re-ordered and redesigned by order of the Reich. Doubtless Poland and the Czechs have noted Germany's alternative model to the Maastricht blueprint for a federalised Europe and will prefer it for their own so recently regained sovereignty. Frankly, from a European perspective Ireland can do as it chooses, it's been decided to ignore it, and the UK is signed up, if it wants to back out it can, it has nothing further to say that is of disruptive importance to the drive towards a single Europe. It is Germany's alternative vision of Europe and its example to centrally important parts of the landmass like Poland that matter.
So what is New Labour going to do? They've shot their European bolt, the country is threatening to come to bits, the standard of living is falling fast and the submersion of the whole mess in a European Lisbon unity is increasingly likely either to not arrive in time or not arrive at all. Post democratic governance has been delayed and the United Kingdom is regarded as an economic and political basket case with an unelected, incompetent authoritarian posing as its leader. The Head of State is demanding more money for continued acquiescence in this public disgrace and economic shambles while a medal is offered not for valour but for loss.
All that is left is refusal to leave, lies, and brute forcing of their continued regime control over most of us. Until the eleven months are up no one will want to accept the bitter future they plan, but our chance of living in a democracy rests now in the hands of other European countries, as theirs once rested in ours.
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I may have given them the idea, alas:
http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2008/09/here-is-news.html
HG I just wanted to say that your recent posts on the Lisbon Constitution have been fascinating and enlightening.
Keep it up!
"All that is left is refusal to leave, lies, and brute forcing of their continued regime control over most of us. Until the eleven months are up no one will want to accept the bitter future they plan, but our chance of living in a democracy rests now in the hands of other European countries, as theirs once rested in ours."
And that's what Mandleson wants Hats.
What Mandelson wants has just been halted by the German constitutional court. Some member states, certainly Germany, will retain their sovereignty, in everything, by EU legislation being required to be monitored constantly for its compatibility with their basic law, which has precedence over any EU laws.
If it's like this for Germany then Poland and the Czech Republic will require at least the same, as should we (except for an institutional void where our constitutional court should be, and a wilful political drive to degrade our sovereignty in favour of a particular model of European unity) and every other signatory.
He also needed Lisbon through soonest, Scrobs, so the election would be both downgraded in importance and our Parliament rendered like the Italian Parliament was before their system of proportional representation was rendered less destructive. Propagandised as a Parliament that more truly represented local and regional UK interests it would have been a splintered, fractious assembly unable to hold together coalitions capable of wielding power for sustained periods, not even the length of a single parliamentary session.
Without Lisbon in force though, any election will be difficult to hold under anything but first past the post single member constituency rules, and would deliver a Conservative government, who have said they will revisit the Lisbon treaty.
Referendums are only advisory in the UK, I much prefer a manifesto central commitment to revisit the Treaty and our accession terms.
Only, as I have argued,if New Labour can't have Lisbon and a denatured UK parliamentary election yielding a powerless UK Parliament, there won't be an election if they can help it.
Blue, :))
"For these reasons, we doubt whether the Lisbon Treaty’s new subsidiarity
provisions about the role of national parliaments would make much practical
difference to the influence presently enjoyed by the UK Parliament."
For a more reasoned analysis of the impact of the Lisbon Treaty - or at least to see that alternatives views do exist one might look here.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmeuleg/563/563.pdf
Perhaps rather than just stating it we could have some analysis as to why Lisbon has weakened the powers of the UK Parliment. As I have said before the Treaty's provisions in this regard apply to all states so the role of the German Constitutional Court really is of little relevance to the UK.
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