Lieberman puts what we’re thinking into words
Lieberman simply says what a lot of of us are thinking:
“There’s a hard core of partisan, passionate, hardcore Republicans. There’s a hard core of partisan Democrats on the other side. And in between is the larger group, which is people who really want to see the right thing done, or want something good done for this country and them — and that means, sometimes, the better choice is somebody who’s not a Democrat.”
Translate that into Britpol and it comes down to people in the centre who are neither left nor right nor whatever but just feel that some things are right and some are wrong. Delightfully vague but it does turn out that we have similar policies.
We’re concerned for our nation [in the U.S. for the constitution], for free enterprise and for freedom as far as possible within the rule of law. We want to see common sense policies which benefit the community as a whole but are based on hard work and achievement, the feeling of satisfaction of a job well done.
Your humble correspondent is useless as a party man – he can’t toe the line decided for him by the Central Politburo. Trouble is, he thinks for himself too much. I know many of you reading this are the same. I’ve been rabbiting on about our heritage but one heritage we can well do without is party politics – it’s just a circus with performing bears or it’s a club for the preselected.
My mate has the answer in my eyes – we have the technical capacity to run television ratings boxes so why can’t that transfer to politics. On major issues such as going into or staying in the EU, we simply indicate our choice from our living rooms. Departments run the day to day.
The pollies in Westminster are to be our servants – they work for us, just coordinating the thing in the way the electoral commissions do. They don’t lose their jobs – they just adjust them and run the gauntlet of selection by merit as we all should do. they have no power to curb our powers or criminalize us or any of that guff.
Simple. 
Well, of course you know it’s not. When the people are in the street next year and the pollies are running scared, what’s going to happen is that when the current system is torn down, there will be Them, in the form of the new Lenins, ready to jump up on that soapbox and lead you all against the hated oppressor, right back into the global oppression which is organized and waiting.
It’s to the EU’s advantage for unrest which will see the parliamentary system swept away and the new system ushered in so they’re not going to complain one bit. The trick is that when the transfer of power comes, it is a genuine representative of the the people who steers the boat and not one of these 5th columnists who always pop up in induced troubled times.
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Yet it is I believe time for change, time to leave the EU and become a trading nation again. All it will take is for the public to vote independent in the next general election, drop the big 3 in favour of someone who will give us what we want and that is out of the EU and back into efta.
How could you! Actually talking of putting democracy into the hands of the people – you should be ashamed
Down to the nity-grity, I assume most people have a mobile phone of one sort or another, therefore it would be much more sensible to use those for people participation in voting on the important matters of state rather than using some gadget associated with the TV.
In fact, taking the idea to its conclusion, we don’t need parliamentarians or local councilors just some people employed to pass out the work that needs to be done, then either the nation votes on payment, if it is for national things, or the people in the area effected for local things.
I mentioned this type of government, with the addition of an absolute monarch, in one of my SF stories.
QM – yes it is.
Ivan – ah, the dictator up there. Hmmmm.
Interesting moves today.Heavy intervention to move the Euro down from 1.50ish, to 1.47ish to the dollar.
Current black-box algorithms say “dollar up – equities down”, hence Wall Street sell off.
Intervention of billions only adds to global liquidity, and doesn’t work long term, but serves to increase existing bubbles.
Brown is pushing Blair to be King of Europe.
Sarkozy and Merkel are backing off. A technical move to extract the highest price from Britain.
The low pound is killing Ireland who can’t devalue, being in the EU block.
The high price may be entry into the EU, but at what price?
A low valued £ would confer economic benefits on Britain for probably five years, enabling EU capital to transfer manufacturing over here.
Germany in particular would not allow that!
The price of entry, and Blairs Kingship, if entry is Browns intention, will be a higher valued £, which will condemn Britain to economic failure for ages, as devaluation is not possible. A further shrinking of the manufacturing base, job losses, etc.
If this is to be the picture, it will be heavily spun.
This scenario is not particularly out of sync with past EU actions regarding Britain.
Currently the failing dollar is making Chines exports move to the higher valued Euro, where they are apparently cheaper in euro terms, thus Europe is being “hollowed out” by Chinese manufacturers, as the US was, hence the intervention to lower the Euro.
If Brown carries this through, he should really be hung from the nearest lamp-post.
Brown is pushing Blair to be King of Europe. Won’t happen – see tomorrow’s post.
It is so refreshing to know that you are 100% correct.
I won’t mention it again.
I’m referring to the Blair presidency only – moves against him. I should have been more specific.
James,
The point of the absolute monarch is that there is a final backstop – the people do most of the governing but there will always be stupid fools – like Brown, Mandelson, etc – so the backstop is needed. It used to be something like that in the past – Elizabeth 1 anyone – and should be today, then maybe, just maybe, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are at the moment.