The Pantomime Parliament
The Pantomime of Parliament
I am still not willing to accept the result of the bogus election, and nor should you be. A government with the support of one in five of the electorate is an affront to democracy, and we are now subject to government by an illegitimocracy.
The main current challenge for Real Democracy UK is to to bang on about the democratic deficit, and suggest ways to engage with the electorate so that more people can be engaged and bothered to vote.
I have been watching the King's Speech debate on BBC Parliament, wherein the new boys and girls give their maiden speeches with widely varying degrees of competence. Mostly thanks to their voters, the usual sniping about the predecessors, and the promises to perform miracles.
Not a lot said about empowering individuals and companies - it is once again all about a command economy in the traditions of the defunct Soviet Union. Although I have some sympathy with the idea that British companies have mostly been fattened up for acquisition and flipping, .
And after their speeches they hold fatuous votes where they wander off to the division lobbies. What a waste of time. Amendment K was predictably defeated by 385 to 82.
Die hard parliamentarians insist that this apparently pointless tradition is an important way for all MPs to randomly encounter and discuss random matters. The fact that it now represents a wanton waste of time and public money is another example of the basic reform required in the philosophy of modernizing democracy. And goodness me, the concept of democracy has been mutilated, misrepresented and mauled just about every where since 2020 and the onset of the hoaxes designed to test the gullibility of the people. The manipulative hard core of those who now control the messaging media are only being moderated by a heroic Elon Musk who bravely sticks to the idea that free speech matters.
The USA is deep in the middle of a mockery of gerrymandering, voting irregularities, and downright fantasy gaslighting. and now state commissioned assassination?
The EU has always made its interpretation of democracy up as it went along, to suit the purposes of the Bilderberg/WEF agenda, with no hint of irony.
But now the UK has fallen - with the ludicrous notion that 30% of the votes should be allowed to control 60% of the HoC. The first job of the new government and its compliant civil service will be to enshrine this state of affairs in such a way that there is no danger of it being undone by the combination of former Conservative voters with the Reform party, to represent the silenced majority.
Yes, lobby voting may be traditional, but what an outrageous and wanton waste of time and public money when there are more pressing matters to attend to. Overall, nothing of substance was achieved (as expected) and a number of minor axes were ground - the adjournment debate led by Labour's Tonia Antoniazzi ranted on for 30 minutes about Commercial Sexual Exploitation. A very worthy concern, but clearly Labour's foetus MP, Sam Carling, was somewhat taken aback by lurid stories of blowjobs and squirmed uncomfortably throughout. I guess even MPs need work experience.
Jess Phillips then spent a further 10 minutes explaining the difference between prostitution and commercial sexual exploitation.
Young Sam looked like he needed a stiff drink and a talk from matron about the birds and bees.
And then when the Commons clocked off at 8 20pm. Attention switched to the House of Lords where we see a Liberal Democrat Peer holding forth, but not about why LDs have enjoyed more than 80 Lords seats even when their HoC numbers would have barely filled a taxi. The indulgence of the LDs in the Lords needs to be balanced with other parties with larger numbers of votes at the general election.
This might take a while... They are very comfortably ensconced for now.
