The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A message to Parliament on our broken democracy.
I have always and still do support leaving the EU, preferably with a deal or some sort of compromise, without one if that fails, but I never anticipated such a mess.
If there is one benefit from this near disaster it’s demonstrated that our political, electoral, and governmental systems are broken. Outdated, unfit for purpose, untrustworthy and unrepresentative of the vast bulk of our population.
The expenses scandal, moats and duck houses are a drop in the ocean compared with the sheer amazing incompetence of Government, Opposition and the whole of Parliament.
Parties don’t actually represent anyone except themselves, the contract between people and government does not work anymore, huge numbers of electors in safe seats are disenfranchised by First Past The Post, MPs can’t do their jobs. If you are incapable of doing what we pay you for then go and let someone else try.
Short of privatising the whole function of government, which has done that to just about everything else because they are too stupid to do it themselves, I see no immediate way out. We are in a hole with no ladder.
This is a dangerous place to be, the stuff that elsewhere would trigger a revolution or a civil war, where vile strong men come up with “easy” answers.
For the love of peace and simple common sense stop kicking the can down the road, get your idiot heads together and find a solution NOW, inside or outside the EU. We need to get on with our lives. You need to look hard at your own privileged positions and start to change the way you behave and how we are governed.
Paul Foyster
Holbeach
