A very close shave. .

Oh my goodness.

I can remember exactly where I was on the day that John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

I was in my father's home office using his drawing board for my geometry homework - when a gasp went up from the sitting room.  It was the shocked reaction of my family more than anything that brought home the stark reality that something really big had just happened. 

The infamous Cuban missile crisis had occurred the year before, when Russia had parked a fleet of nuclear missiles with friendly Cuba, right next door to the United States. It was the forerunner of the Ukraine and Russia situation we presently face, when everyone was on edge at the real prospect of nuclear Armageddon. But in return for Russia removing the nuclear missiles from its Soviet satellite states in the Warsaw pact, including Ukraine, there was a tacit understanding that NATO would not park its members' tanks on Russia's lawn. A simple observation of historical reality which got Nigel Farage crucified by a storm of indignation by the liberal establishment, during the UK general election, for daring to speak honestly.

The anti-Trump rhetoric in the "liberal media" has been relentless since the alleged "storming" of the Capitol building in January 2020 by what looked more like a Village People tribute Act than a serious insurrection attempt.  This incident was reheated and  bent to fit the LawFare demonisation of Trump and used to mask the questioning of the legitimacy of the presidential election which once again highlighted the dubious nature of American election counts, and the unhelpful way that the electoral college system works to obscure and distort the actual numbers. The system is impossibly complicated in order that a clear-cut decision can be avoided while election fixers go to work to try to contrive the result they want.  It's never going to be resolved with more of the same, somebody has to change the system and use modern direct democracy technology to reduce the scope for fraud and manipulation. And of course, the same can now be said of the UK electoral system where 80% of the electorate have not chosen Labour, yet MP Lucy Powell is claiming that just one in five voters represents a massive mandate for Starmer's socialist revolution.

If you are one of the summarily disenfranchised, it's not hard to see that bemusement can lead to frustration at such absurd Alice in Wonderland politics.  Especially now that the 20% of winners are poking jibes at the 80% seething losers, over the questions of the Brexit vote which they claim was stolen, despite being the subject of a more straightforward 52/48% majority. Yes, I am aware that the 20% of total electorate winners may be interpreted as 34% of the turned out vote of 56% of the Electorate. But however you spin it, the democratic deficit is extreme and embarrassing. And it will come around to bite the fraudulent winners in the fundament soon enough.

Surely we can no longer argue that we do not need an electoral system that more reasonably reflects the entire electorate, where our five-year fate is decided by just one in five of the electorate, with the help of a very gameable system.

I am well aware of the arguments in favour of the first past the post system, in that it delivers decisive results that allow government to get on without hindrance. Which is fine, where those governments are legitimate and not the result of accidents of unintended democratic malfunction.

However, that was in the good old days before Tony Blair had politicized public service and rendered the rebellious and obstructive civil service as enemies of any Conservative government trying to carry out the will of the people as opposed to the will of the liberal elite that controls the civil service, the education establishment, the Health service, and the legal establishment.

The frustrations of those who are denied democracy in the present system had generally been sandbagged by the incumbents of the two party system, who really do not want to risk losing their unfair advantage with any sort of proportional representation.

I would of course argue that the proposals on this site for realdemocracy.uk can provide the subtle blend of engagement for all - with the comfort of a voting platform that can engage more than just a once in every five years with an ephemeral snapshot of fickle opinion.

In addition, this time, the vote reflected no enthusiasm for the bollard and his vague manifesto, it was mostly a vote to remove the decaying carcass of the Sunak's Conservatives after 5 years of shambolic politics and backstabbing.

We must do better - but now we have somewhat foolishly hung the albatross of Keir Starmer and his illegitimocracy around the nation's neck.

So take every opportunity that comes your way to resist and object to the democratic deficit and the imposition of Starmergeddon.