The collapse of Gordon Brown’s personal authority after his fragility as a public politician, answering to the electorate’s representatives, has been exposed in the House of Commons, and the collapse of the Labour party into a miasma of corruptly and illegally sought and obtained money, thus depriving the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath of what little democratic validity he had, now threatens the Labour regime policy of forcing the United Kingdom into the penultimate manifestation of the United States of Europe.
On 13 December this imposed, failure of a political leader intends to sign the Lisbon Treaty and betray: his own tiny, Scottish electorate; his party’s manifesto on which the defenestrated, democratically elected Labour Leader obtained a majority; his country, whose government under the SNP wishes to hold a consultative referendum on the Treaty; and our country.
The new Polish prime minister, elected after the Lisbon negotiations and with ratification of the Lisbon Constitutional Treaty as part of his platform, has stated that the commitments of the previous elected Polish government on the Treaty will be honoured; the unelected United Kingdom prime minister is unable to offer any such assurance, for his regime cannot evaluate the worth or validity of ‘opt-outs’ that are supposed to render the Treaty not a Constitution, and he is unwilling to proffer any election.
Brown’s formally secure position on driving the ratification of the Lisbon Constitutional Treaty through Parliament, using Blair’s electoral majority in the Commons, could well be undermined in the reality of open politics rather than Labour party secretive factionalism, bullying, and subservience to the trading of special interests and ‘stakeholding’.
NewLabourNewDawn had thought to pen political discourse permanently within Labour’s sordid confines, but open politics and the unfolding results of this unworthy goal of installing permanent statist governance have chosen otherwise.
Undoubtedly, on a formal vote of confidence in the Commons, Blair’s majority would hold for Brown; but how many times can this be used to prop up government failure to carry the House? Westminster is not the Italian House of Deputies and even there the persistent recourse to confidence votes to drive through government policy was criticized as bullying not governing. And on such an issue as the surrender of the United Kingdom’s sovereignty to a federal Europe, whipping could well not hold on substantive votes. The threat of facing the electorate has lost its sting when the electorate will reward those who oppose the swallowing up of the country by the continent.
Blair could carry his policies with cross party support; no such option exists for Brown in his dislikeability, barely constitutional status, lapped by the visible corruption of his party, driving a policy objectionable to much of the electorate he failed to consult.
Should Labour try for a third leader without a general election then even our Head of State might feel obliged to act as such, rather than just a procedural validator, and advise a general election.
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who is the tactical genius in the Tory Party, the exponent of political ju jitsu who can use Brown's own momentum and lack of balance to throw him on this one ?
it must be possible
roles reversed, Mandelson would have a plan
Brown is off balance, yes, he wasn't ready for the degenerate Labour party and the corrupt, controlled vehicle for accessing power that it has become, to be so displayed for its erstwhile supporters to see.
Nor was he ready for the shock to his amour propre that the Commons delivered; required to justify and explain executive decisions to our elected representatives, he failed in every way.
He will be organizing the removal of parliamentary scrutiny and his regular disgracing there even as we type.
Fortunately his tactical and political sense (outside of the degraded micro-management of traded power and influence that exists within his party) is as poor as his financial and economic competence, and he has thought it clever to provide a great deal of parliamentary time for discussion of ratification. Perhaps he believed others would not understand that discussion cannot alter a single word of the Constitutional Treaty he hopes to sign on 13 December; like all who suffer his cognitive limitations, he is not self aware (or he is plain arrogant in unkinder language)and fails wholly to grasp the limited range of his abilities, so damaged by emotional deadness. But he has provided the second chance for our democracy to maul and, rightly, dispose of him.
There are only two chances to end the Brown horror - either now by demonstrating the endemic and systematic corruption of the Labour party that validates his premiership, or in the debates in the House he has so unwisely conceded in place of a referendum and cannot withdraw in his planned sidelining of Parliament.
The man is not fit to govern and his party is not fit to represent the valid and proper concerns of the democratic centre left, but I fear neither will be ended by ju jitsu, ND; more by informed, steady, persistent application of political and moral pressure.
OK, back to the mockery then
it's a tough job but someone has to do it
I dont think the two questions will be connected in the electorates mind HG. The EU is the issue above all in which the politically literate and the rest utterly differ. This is because to most people the idea of coperating closely with our neighbours sounds like a good one and the further step of losing our own self determining rights has simply not occurred to them. Additionally our own institutions are undermined in the progressive media and establishment and this leads to a blinking diffidence on the whole subject.
This is why the Conservative Party cannot undertake to pull the whole thing ouit like a bad tooth , it woud lose votes .
This is why the business of getting non combatants up to speed is vital and I am grateful for the reminder that another opportunity to make what is happening clear is arriving .
It occurs to me that the corruption angle on the EU , itself of intergalactic scale, would be the one to emphasise more than loss of sovereignty.
I was looking at the Economist , (of al things) the other day and I was plsed to see nationalism reasserting itself all over Europe.
Those who wished to forget about countries are very much on the defensive but if they are left alone they will once agan seek to attack the very home that protects them.
BTW Joined Lewes Assoc and met the PPC last night .He invited me to sit at the top table , it was all rather flattering . I don`t think they have met a Conseevative like me down there HG, bit of a culture shock.Farmers , Military chaps , whiskers and so forth. Nice people but the image is all wrong
( I had some fun....). WE will be doping our best to get rid of Nroman Baker of "David Kelly Murder " fame
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