Posted on 12/01/2009 6:49:45 AM PST by Altura Ct.
As Britain approaches a general election, commentators on the present "British sickness" or "British crisis" usually dwell on one of several areas. Here are some of them:
• Destruction of trust in the Parliamentary and political system. About half Britain's MPs have been found to have broken either the spirit or the letter of the law with dodgy expense claims, "flipping" primary and secondary residences to avoid capital gains tax and in other ways showing contempt for the taxpayer -- a contempt now being heartily reciprocated. It is hard to see how any major party will be able to find enough cleanskins to form a ministry after the next election. Coupled with this is the rise to power of bizarre figures like Lord Mandelson, virtually de facto Prime Minister although elected by no one, once a young far-leftist activist, now a friend (if that is the word) of Russian oligarchs and recently a shooting partner of Colonel Qaddafi's son on the Rothschild Estate.
• The threat to Britain's political and national identity posed by integration into the European Union. This will, it is predicted, be irrevocably sealed by the Treaty of Lisbon, and it has already had far-reaching consequences in British domestic law. Despite numerous promises, there seems no prospect of a referendum being held by either a Labour or Conservative government...
• The threat to Britain's historic cultural identity through massive and aggressive Muslim immigration.Young British Muslims appear to be becoming much more extreme than their parents, probably largely in reaction to the cultural decadence they are daily confronted with. A recent poll found 36 percent of British Muslims aged 16 to 24 believe those who convert to another religion should be punished by death.
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Destruction of trust in the Parliamentary and political system.
On this one at least, I'd see America's position being worse, at least in the Congressional systems. The open collaboration to gerrymander seats across the nation, coupled with overly powerful lobbyists of all stripes bodes ill for what was once the greatest experiment in freedom.
Mind you, I think it's bedevilling the rest of the western world - America ios more notable because it is where the money, the power and therefore the focus for corruption is.
We can still have another revolution. Jefferson expected this to occur regularly. As is usual, I volunteer to man the guillotine should Pelosi and Reid come up the stairs.
All kidding aside, I’m afraid that this will be what will be needed in order to cleanse the filth of both parties out of the system.
No gerrymandering in AK or MT.
If Congress would stick to the Constitution there would be no lobbyists because there would be nothing to lobby for. We, the apathetic electorate, are responsible, not the politicians......
DE, VT, SD, ND, WY either.
As of midnight last night, UK is fully submerged via the Treaty of Lisbon as merely a “provincial county” within the EU with fully unaccountable authority now rendered over it. Its’ political parties will now only compete regarding the efficiency of compliance with mandated dictums and trifling local matters the larger EU does not care about. The new “parliamentary feudalism” will prove unimaginably draconian, and soon. Under the concept of a “North American Union”, the same would be repeated here.
There you’re being overly optimistic. There will be lobbyists as long as humans know desire...
I lived in Britain for a couple of years, even bought property with a vague intent of settling in there. Although an American, I had been raised on traditional British culture and literature and had a naive view of the reality of modern Britain.
I soon found out that my image of “Upstairs Downstairs” had morphed into “A Clockwork Orange.” I returned to the USA, only to find that the same morphology was taking place here.
This can’t last. It has gotten too bad.
Oh well ,at least we don’t have this:
the rise to power of bizarre figures like Lord Mandelson, virtually de facto Prime Minister although elected by no one, once a young far-leftist activist, now a friend (if that is the word) of Russian oligarchs and recently a shooting partner of Colonel Qaddafi’s son on the Rothschild Estate.
Perhaps what we have is different, or worse?
We got the two Emanuels, the Axelrod, the Pfiffff, the Geithner,
all unelected but controlling Zero.
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