Until we get real 'People Power', based on restoring our inherent right to the recognition of our sovereignty, no future political reforms will alter a thing apart from a rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic as our system of governance continues to deteriorate.
The trouble is that the gap between the views of our politicians and the 'People', they are elected to serve, continues to widen and will continue to do so unless the 'People' wake up and demand change.
While THA's six demands are revolutionary there is a nothing that a united 'People' can not achieve if they put their minds to it. To some extent the 2016 referendum and last years election showed what the 'People' can achieve. However with regards the election, and despite the size of the Conservative majority, I'm not holding out much hope that we will see many of the policy reforms I'm convinced the 'Silent Majority' believe are necessary and would readily support. If only this government would really listen to the 'People' and be radical I for one would be a very happy bunny!
We really should be under no illusion that our politicians still rule the roost and still act as our masters and not our servants.
So if we want to see real reform of our governance we, the 'People', are going to have to unite and demand the changes we want, as set out in THA's six demands, at the heart of which sees our inherent sovereignty returned to us and recognised in law.
But we already have it Niall:
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You are missing the point as I accept the 'People' voted for Brexit but there after we are back with no say and the government can do what it wants until the next election.
DeleteI was being sarcastic Niall.
DeleteSo, you got the Government you wanted and still you're frustrated?
ReplyDeleteAnd the same across the last forty years........you voted, got Governments you wanted, policies you wanted, but somehow *you're* the ones that aren't getting what you want? Not the people that voted differently?
You are also missing the point as the THA's six demands would reform our governance with a sovereign people always able to hold their government to account like voting NO to HS2 if the government goes ahead with it. This could be accomplished under our fourth demand.
DeleteOnce upon a time people voted for the Tories and got the poll tax. Once upon a time, people voted Tory and got free entry into a political union that then started rerplacing our institutions of government and democracy.
Deletelast-name, no, we got the least worst government, not the one we wanted. There's a long way to go before government can be considered fit for purpose.
ReplyDeleteCorrect, Boris only got 43.6 % of the vote which is hardly an overriding endorsement.
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