Where does the real danger to us lie?

Last night on Question Time the right wing journalist from the Times newspaper, David Aaronovitch was asked, during a discussion on the Syrian crisis, if the government should just have ignored the overwhelming opinion of the British public that they should refrain from attacking Syria, and he said yes. There were three MPs sitting on the panel and not one of them disagreed with him or took him to task. This highlights how democracy in Britain has become a farce and how the ruling elite simply ignore the wishes of the people who elect them, pay their wages and pensions, and who are supposed to be the sovereign power in what we laughingly refer to as a representative liberal democracy.

Aaronovich said that the government should take no notice of public opinion on issues such as this because that is what they are there for, to take such decisions. Thus, in this person's opinion the public are of no consequence when it comes to decisions such as waging war against another sovereign state and exposing that same public to the dangers of violent retaliation. The public are of no consequence with respect to having to finance such an adventure in the middle of the biggest recession in this country's history. In short, in the opinion of the British elite, the public are simply of no consequence whatsoever.

I have posted before, and make no apology for repeating, that we must never forget what are politicians and government are and what their functions are. Politicians are simply people like you and me who wake up one morning and discover that they have been elected into Parliament. There is no training, skills, expertise or exams required to be elected into Parliament, all that is required is the ability to harness the requisite number of votes to defeat your nearest challenger. If you turn out to be even semi-competent, then that is purely chance. The performance of the present government is ample evidence that we often get it dramatically wrong.

 

I have written before of the derivative nature of government. What I mean by this is that government's derive their existence from the will of the people and are thus subject to that will. In addition, we elect a legislative body, we do not elect the government. Thus, British democracy requires that the executive power must always be subject to the power of the legislature which, in its turn, is subject to the will of the people. This is obviously the reverse of political reality in Britain where the executive totally subordinates the legislature who, in their turn, simply ignore the electorate. If I may quote John Locke, the so-called father of representative liberal democracy

'there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.'

Thus, according to John Locke, supreme power must always lie with the people. The arrogance of the British elite and people like Aaronovich is getting to an unacceptable level in the UK. The danger to the British people lies, not with terrorists, Muslims or external forces. The real danger to us is our Parliament and its lackeys in the media. Scotland must distance itself from these people. You have been warned

 

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