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The Party's Over
With Labour in complete disarray and the Conservatives enmired in the Bag O' Shite scandal the upcoming European and Local elections offer a unique opportunity for radicals, freethinkers and borderline loonies to deliver some shocks to the smug, self serving troughers of the major parties.
The Party’s Over? BY Ed Butt
2006-07-16

I guess few of us have been able to resist a smug chortle at the discomfort of Gordon Brown this week, especially as it was followed by an embarrassment for David Cameron's Bag O'Shite Conservatives.

Before we revel too much in the fact that Brown and the "New Labour Project will be humiliated at the European elections in a few weeks before being chucked out of office in the General Election that must be held in 2010 we should remember the issue that has finally tirned the Labour core vote against the party is something MPs of all parties have been doing since Parliament was invented, something every Prime Minister's administrations since 1832 has done, looking after their friends while lining their own pockets.

How have Parliamentarians go away with it so long? Simply because once in that exclusive club they enjoy the protections and privileges that go with membership so long as they play by the rules.

For decades real radicals have ben arguing Britain’s Parliamentary system with its official parties of government and opposition is undemocratic and breached the British constitution (yes even unwritten constitutions can be breached) The party system, the loyalties it demands and the pressures it imposes pervert democracy.

How so?

The British Parliament is founded on the basis that elected representatives should put the interests of their constituents before loyalty to anything other than the nation itself. The political parties in Parliament operate in a way that requires MPs to put loyalty to party before anything else. The party whips offices are a blatant breach of everybody’s civil rights when they pressure MPs to toe the party line.

Under Blair’s and the Brown's premiership the flaw in this system has become very obvious as the party whips* (very appropriately titled considering the miasma of sex-sleaze surrounding both parties) have bribed, bullied and coerced junior members to support policies which put the interests of the American administration before those of either the British state or the residents (even the non - voting ones) of any constituency.

The party system then favours vested interest over public interest. It is time then, is it not, for we, the voters, to dispense with this system that works against us, that rewards the disloyalty to their constituents of those MPs who unerringly remain "on message to gain advancement in the party hierarchy by advancing the party's interests over those of consituents.

In future this blog will be exhorting its rapidly growing band of followers to support The Greens, The Rainbow Alliance, The Monster Raving Looney Party, Independent candidates, UKIP (they’re a laugh at least), Respect, the Real Liberals or any other fringe candidate contesting any election in the UK. And if your only fringe candidate is a BNP supporter - well the least unacceptable option must be the Lib Dems because at least they support proportional representation, the system in which every vote counts.

Proportional Represenation is far from perfect but is a system that favours the voters against the interests of the self-interest party and the “resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated” parties. In forty years of voting I have never lived in a constituency that elected an MP I felt I could give my vote to. Only in the European Elections held under a PR sytstem has my vote ever made any difference. Is that democracy?

By following the "vote for the crackpot" strategy we can change that Not only can we get the buggers out if we put our minds to it, we can make sure they never get back in. *officials of the parliamentary groups whose function is to ensure members stay “on message” and are not tempted to try to think for themselves. RELATED POSTS: Playing Politics With The Queen
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