As I was in London all day Saturday and had had a busy week, I spent part of Sunday morning catching up on some programmes that I had recorded before taking leisurely walk down to the pier.
I flicked on Prime Ministers Question time to see Mr Peter Bone MP for Wellingborough as the question that he and his constituents would like answering, in particular the redoubtable Mrs Bone who was 'insisting on it', when was there going to be a referendum on our membership of the EU.
Our Leader, said there will not be one because I think we are better off in.
There we have it, representative Westminster democracy at its worst. The leader of a party that is in its soul Euro-sceptic, a party that failed to secure a majority of seat in Parliament deciding what our constitutional position is as a nation vis a vis Europe.
Van Rompuy has recently said he is not going to commit EU troops to Libya. What EU troops ? there is no such thing other than in his fevered mind. He was making such statements about Afghanistan in December. Baroness Ashton is taken seriously as the EU's foreign secretary. None of these people are elected by the popular mandate in this country, as an avid political geek of thirty years standing I had not heard of these two until the last two years.
None of this is transparent, precious little of this has any legitimacy constitutionally.
If we actually had a constitution that was assented to by the people of Great Britain, a Constitutional Court would rule on such matters. Much of the excesses of the last authoritarian Labour government would have been subjected to challenge after challenge in a constitutional court, certainly IDave's dismissal of the redoubtable Mrs Bone would not have been so flippant and easy. It would have been subject to a full challenge as to the legitimacy of EU overlordship.
The concentration of power in the hands of one man was an issue settled on the battlefield of Naseby in June 1645, in th intervening three hundred and sixty five years we have drifted back to a situation where one man by dint of birth and privilege rules nearly seventy million people and Mrs Bone.
This is elective monarchy, with the candidates coming from a tiny political elite.
What is worse is that this monarch is in thrall to a foreign master, not to the people of this country.
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When people make excuses for not doing things that they might even give the impression that they "wish they could" do, one knows that the truth is they do not want to do them, have no intention of doing them, and will not allow you to persuade them to do them.
However. Did not David Cameron, or a spokesperson, say that there would be a referendum, or at least the situation would be very seriously reviewed (with the implied intention to consult the electorate) if the Conservatives were elected?
Even if he had no intention of a referendum, which is evident, cannot he be held for breach of trust, or lying?
I realise politicians lie all the time, and that people such as those in UKIP bring up the fact that Britain's sovereignty is almost finished on a regular basis.
But I am convinced that if the reality was brought into the conscious brain of the people, that very seriously and in truth Britannia is about to become a slave, that WW2 was, indeed, fought in vain and that another Hitler can very easily rise if conditions are right, and those conditions seem to be coming over the horizon, they will wake up and realise what is coming.
Cannot someone with some integrity and position, such as even now, Baroness Thatcher, challenge what is happening?
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