Elite arrogance

The contempt and loathing of our ruling elite for the ordinary people of the country was graphically evident from the reaction of the government chief whip Andrew Mitchell to the police who prevented him from doing exactly as he wanted to. In other words he was treated like the rest of the plebs he so evidently despises. I hope he remembers how worthless the plebs are the next time the police provide him and the rest of his despicable crew with the protection they so depend on on a daily basis.

Mitchell and our noble betters at the apex of our political system are the result of our system of first-past-the-post voting. This system has produced a hereditary system of government in the UK through which the political elite can indulge in their favourite pastime of excluding those who they disapprove of, those who do not belong to 'their people.' Our elite actually have a nickname for the sort of people that they socialise with, they are PLU's, people like us. The rest of the plebs are of course not like them and so must be excluded from their circles, which includes the top echelons of society in all its manifestations, government, civil service, and all areas of decision-making.

The FPTP voting system allows the party leaderships to centralise decision-making in the parties and therefore control all aspects of the party including candidate selection and party management positions to ensure that only those people whom the leaders can depend on will come through the system. Thatcher and Blair were experts at this form of manipulation and ensured that all people of talent within the major parties were excluded if they posed any form of threat to their leadership and control. That is why we have such an appalling level of politician in the UK. All the people with any talent and ability were weeded out in case they posed a threat to the leadership with the result that Thatcher and Blair were surrounded by PLU's, in other words a group of brainless yes people who refused to exercise any form of independence and were quite content to say and do whatever the leadership told them. As a result we are saddled with the choice of Cameron and Osborne or Milliband and Balls. It's genuinely enough to make you weep. I don't think its an exaggeration to say that if you combined the IQ's of all four of these eminent political giants you still would not manage to get a half-wit.

As a result, any hope of meaningful recovery in the UK is predicated on a genuine root and branch reform of the political system, beginning with the electoral system. One of the imperatives of British politics is that Scotland will have to vote for independence if it is to avoid the worst ravages of the political and economic destruction that is being, and will continue to be, inflicted on the rest of the UK. Scotland must detach itself from a Westminster parliament that has lost all sight of its roles and functions, that has become a vehicle for class warfare and advancing the interests of a select group of PLU's. This has nothing to do with nationalism and everything to do with democracy and economic realism.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat