Dear All
As the General Election approaches, the chaotic nature of
the British political system is exposed for what it is broken, tired and in
need of radical change.
It needs new parties being formed to break the existing
monopoly.
You may ask is there any evidence to support things are
broken, well the collapse of the main political parties in terms of voters, but
more importantly in terms of members and especially activists.
Currently the Labour Party in Scotland is struggling in the
polls, the Lib Dems and the Scottish Conservatives are at rock bottom despite
Ruth Davidson saying her group had a bounce. If tactical voting takes place in
this election, her bounce won’t come from Conservative voters but from others
to shut the SNP out.
The system is broken because people, ordinary people are fed
up with voting for parties who don’t listen to them, work for them and only
serve their own narrow agenda, so far the people haven’t yet cottoned on to the
con trick by the SNP, but they will over the next couple of years.
There is also talk about radical change, of rich people
being punished, people made to pay their fair share and the continual promise
of a fairer society.
You might as well learn the truth now, unless politics
changes there will never be a fairer society, there will never be a party who
stands up for your rights and enforces your rights while in government.
They leave that task to you.
An example of injustice, it took Shirley McKie, seven years
to clear her name.
Last September Scotland was on the allegedly verge of a
bloodless revolution but the ‘coup’ all went wrong because the people realised
many things wrong with it, independence wasn’t on offer, the SNP leadership of
Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon were untrustworthy and liars, and
the SNP didn’t prepare Scotland for independence by doing the work.
Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon marched the
miserable excuse for what passes for independence campaigners up to the hill
and then marched them back down with their tails between their legs.
Salmond has written a book called, ‘the dream will never
die’, a more apt title would be ‘the people of Scotland rejected me’.
At present there is a lot of talk about federalisation, if
this happens it would be the end of the United Kingdom as we know it, Britain,
then be the ‘Commonwealth of Britain’
modelled on Canada.
Would this refresh our national politics?
The answer is no, the same people and parties would still
try and prevail in the new system and nothing would change, a structural change
without a cultural change is useless.
Politicians are despised and mistrusted by people and the
country is in danger of becoming ungovernable.
Westminster is not fit for purpose and by the same token
neither is Holyrood. As Westminster is the old-fashioned “boys’ club”, Holyrood
has become the new fashioned “boys club”.
Michael Cockerell’s “Inside the Commons” four-part
documentary on BBC2 last month shows how bad the political system is, archaic,
time-wasting, and with pointless tradition that has nothing to do with running
a modern democracy.
Trivia is seen as an excuse for not dealing with the real
issues and the problems.
Politicians still measure their “success” by selling you the
line that they will oversee endless growth; as the only yardstick of success.
You cannot have endless growth, this is impossible, sooner or later, there will
be a downturn. Then they play the blame game, it is never their fault, it was
the fault of the last lot, currently this is the game the SNP is playing
regarding the Scottish health service.
The rise of UKIP and the SNP maybe seen by some as a new
dawn, however, I don’t think at this time, either can change how politics is
done in this country.
Ukip isn’t developed enough and the SNP is simply a cult.
If Britain ends up as a federal enterprise in the next few
years, as the solution to EVEL, the experiment will be a failure unless new
parties are formed to inject what politics has lacked for decades competition.
If you understand what a cartel is you get a sense of what
the real problem actually is, the same people from the same type of background
who are divorced from the reality of ordinary people.
At present politics is not ‘normal’, a by-product of this is
groups being formed such as ‘United Against Separation’ and ‘Scotland in Union’,
these groups have people in them who have different political views and
membership of parties. Their goal is to preserve the Union, but later on they
will also find they have another new task further down the line which they may
want to take on board.
Changing the status quo!
And helping to develop new parties, probably towards 2020,
if federalism is going to have any chance of success, new parties will need to
be formed who are centre right.
By centre right that doesn’t mean ‘clones’ of the
Conservative Party.
In Scotland, the SNP offer nothing, do nothing, and aspire
to nothing but their own narrow self-interest; what unpopular Nicola Sturgeon
and her angry Nat clique don’t realise is that they are no longer relevant.
Scotland rejected them!
If they get success in this year’s Westminster election it
is down to Labour’s failure to engage with people, not the record of the SNP in
government. Scotland rejected Conservatism because of Thatcher’s uncaring attitude
and indifference to the plight of Scots. The Labour Party in Scotland left
their roots and that abandonment is reflected in the polls, the line, ‘I didn’t
leave Labour; Labour left me’ has a ring of truth to it.
The British political system has exposed for what it is
broken, tired and in need of radical change.
And there will be a tipping point, it won’t be populist
policies that are the cause of change but the person who stands up and says
that they will deliver the modern democracy that for so long has been the stuff
of dreams and hope of the people.
At present no one can really claim, 'this is my government who is working for me'!
At present no one can really claim, 'this is my government who is working for me'!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
3 comments:
Good analysis of what is now a serious issue.
The main political parties are trying to please everyone. Not only is it unrealistic it is (to me anyway) bloody patronising.
The UK needs a new political force, but not the same old format. Let's get one with some definite policies and some honesty - "we can't fix everything but this is what we will prioritise first". That approach would be more attractive.
What we do not need is a federal state. The UK has problems, but split it up and everyone becomes irrelevant in global affairs.
Nicola Sturgeon should be ashamed of herself for snubbing the Afghanistan Memorial Service. She has also "SNUBBED" the relatives of Scots military personell who died in the conflict. This witch is not fit to govern Scotland!!!!!!
You're right, we desperately need a non PC, non religious appeasing, center right party. We need to be able to call a spade a spade though.
Change to UK politics might come from a place you least expect and that's France. Marine Le Pen will change Europe for ever and fairly soon. Europe might separate into smaller clumps of states. Forget UKIP or Cameron's in out vote if he wins control. Both an irrelevance compared to Le Pen. It's all going to start with the Grexit though.
Wakey wakey voters ! Scotland's downfall will be voting for the SNP because people think they will fix Westminster austerity cuts. Well that is going to be NOTHING compared to the cuts required supporting the result of their planned increase in Islamic immigrants. They need Islam to support their independence plans.
Scots Polish do not want to change our culture or heritage. They just generally have a few beers and get on with it and contribute to benefit UK. I would say Polish immigration is very positive but they do not fit in with Salmonds plans. They are not wealthy enough to influence the SNP ideology. Don't be fooled Polish friends, in voting SNP. Just look at any other country in Europe with a flood of Islamic immigrants, the damage that has been caused to culture and heritage. Scots Polish friends should vote to keep the SNP out. It's in your interests also.
I suspect the whole UK will just degenerate further and further, afraid to say "boo to a goose" for fear of offending religious minority idiots, until the oil runs out in Saudi and Christianity disappears, leaving a few hardcore clergy in their garage on a Sunday. We need a party with balls and a leader not afraid to speak out. We need CLARKSON.
Vote SNP OUT in Perthshire. You know it makes mosque free sense.
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