Getting the general election called at all is a political achievement by conservatives. They have kept the UK's credit rating on hold and have not looked down as the economy went off the cliff; the Governor of the Bank of England has printed a couple of hundred billion to buy up the bonds that have kept bills paid and things still moving; misrepresentation of statistics has been overlooked more or less, unless so blatant it might have frightened-off investors. Just imagine if they had gone for Brown, no holds barred.
As Conservatives and other voters groaned at the missed, even ignored, open goals undefended, indeed indefensible, by the Brown regime, the conservatives held back on showing political strength too early, putting the country's well being first, and committed to what was still standing of our Constitution. Brown's Labour is bad through and through and have acted without regard for precedent or law in their rampage through our society. Because of this behaviour and attitude to their right to power, it was not an unreasonable concern that a special measures administration would be shoved into place and kept there during 'the global crisis that was nothing to do with Brown'; getting rid of such rule would have been more brutal than most would have wanted it to be. Brown would have been getting on with the job for years - just until he'd resolved the global crisis, then we could all have our votes back.
There are still those who argue that they will not vote Brown out in the only available mode because the Conservatives should have been more assertive, arrogant in political stance, punitive, or concerned themselves more with special interests, rather than the national interest.
Yet at last that corrupted Parliament, ushered in on the hopes of a new-forging of the social contract, and maintained for so long in its bought-off worthlessness by a Speaker who was eventually too much even for such MPs as we have suffered to stomach , is sent away. Now it is our turn; it is for the voters to send away Brown and his supporters and hangers-on.
Not hard to do:
- make sure of your vote and cast it, or someone else might well be using it.
- vote for the candidate in your constituency most likely to defeat the Brownite candidate.
A lot of decent social democrats are going to go down in this election; but they should have got rid of the unelected 'Leader' of their Party themselves. When it's left up to the electorate of the entire country, then they go down too.
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I still think there's a couple of aces up Cameron's sleeve Hats.
One's already been mentioned on Guido...
Referendum anyone?
Scrobs, I confess, I'm not a referendum believer.
They aren't binding on the government of the day, so a well-funded and properly constructed poll would be almost as good (and of course such polls have been conducted for private political consumption with the expected outcomes, which is why there will be no referendums.) Referendums can only be triggered by the government of the day. Properly constructed polls can be initiated by anyone or any organisation with the funds to do it, and to publicise the results.
And a poll will not split the Conservative vote a la UKIP yet will be just as informative.
I'm a constitutionalist: we have all the constitutional powers we need to act as Germany, (and Italy, France, the Czech Republic and, though I'm not sure enough about other European member-states exact constitutional statuses, many others I imagine) to maintain our important independences. We have been grossly damaged not by state weakness but by the New Labour subservience to the European Union. These were political choices, not inevitable outcomes.
There is a craven streak through the permanent political state too that wants ever-closer union with Europe. At least the Conservatives have broken with that and will put European relations'-change to us all, if major, and to a revivified Parliament without guillotines and avoidance of debate, if minor. And will use our constitutional powers to assess the worth of EU change to us, and reject it here, in the UK, if we choose to.
Would you rather have a referendum that limits what our infinitely flexible constitution can do, and gets an answer to a question over which we have no control? I fear Brown might offer just such a deal as the election rolls on. But then, I don't have a high opinion of referendums when used under our system.
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