Originally posted by Hand87_5
Well if your representants at the parlement don’t represent the general public opinion , it sounds like a major failure in your democratic system to me !
But what are the people to do – the elections need only have one major attention-grabber and everything else gets slid in through the back door by the winning party.
If you voted for labour in the elections then they take it as carte blanche that everything in their manifesto is fine with the people – so those who wanted an end to 18 years of tory rule suddenly found that they had elected not a left-field socialist government but a centre-right one who would continue to run down the unions and bow to the demands of big business, to continue with privatisation, continue to place cronies (usually high donating labour-backers from big business) in positions of high power, failing to invest in the NHS and transport as promised, generally continue to dither, oh and fail to carry through their pledges on referendums or public consultation for various contentious matters – single currency and EU membership for example – which they think/know they will not do well in.
In France they recently had an election where everyone had the choice between a far right politician and the subsequent winner – had the losing politician had some excellent far-sighted policies in his prospective portfolio, or even some potential vote winning policies, would he have been voted for, or would the electorate have voted against him, just the same, because he was a fascist? That is what happened with this cretin Blair – he isn’t a tory so let’s vote him in and sod what rubbish he drags in to govern us with. At the moment the country still loathes him – to the point where he has demanded that his spin doctors make the country respect him even if it won’t love him – but he will almost certainly still win the next election because there is no one else even close enough to unseat him.
The kind of parties who would bring Britain out of Europe are not going to be backed by big business (who want Britain in there to boost their profits, and hedge their bets by backing all the major parties, just in case…) and have other policies which might be the equivalent of, for example, turning Britain into a police state or downgrading murder to a minor crime – i.e. making them unelectable.
That’s how it is here – it wouldn’t surprise me if one party threw in something stupid, like the outlawing of blue biros and compulsory use of red ink on all envelopes, just to see how far they can push their luck; when the people query it the reply would be “well, it was in our manifesto…”;) – Nermal
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