I am taken by this quote, attributed to
Dame Freya Stark, in connection with seeing
our demands enacted:-
“One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one is to get
anything done.”
There is no doubt in my mind that if enough people want to
achieve the political reforms we are proposing, in our six demands, then they
will happened especially if the ‘People’ become a nuisance! Fortunately the
various and numerous levels of active peaceful protest have been well covered
in Gene Sharp’s excellent little book ‘From dictatorship to democracy’ which I
recommend you to read.
I also picked up on these two statistics this week which should
have ramifications for our agenda and help it to progress. 68% of Britons feel
there is currently no political party that represents them which is up from 61%
from six months
ago and less than 10% of people closely identify
with any leading political figure.
Both statistics support last week’s post and prove how
disconnected our politicians are from the people they serve.
However
the main point about these statistics is that when
the ‘People’ are recognised as sovereign the importance of political parties
will become less as at any given time the ‘People’ will have the ‘Power’ to
hold the government and politicians to account. The impact of this would
be that exposed directly to the people they serve the Westminster bubble would
be permanently pricked with parties and politicians being more responsive to
our basic needs and concerns thus preventing them indulging in in their own
naval gazing illiberal elitists fantasies.
The need for our Agenda has never been so relevant to the
situation we face with the collective incompetence at Westminster and all we
have to do is to get organised and unite and tell our politicians what we want.
There is of course one major hurdle to overcome and that is to get the word out
there that “ There is a better way.”