REMEMBER REMEMBER THE 12th OF DECEMBER : Get Brexit Done is the slogan outgoing Prime Minister Boris “f*ck democracy” Johnson’s aides repeat ad nauseously on his social media accounts. He’s told us himself that he doesn’t really do the Twittersphere, but someone does in his name then?
It’s an interesting pitch. The one aim over half of the country does not want achieved. That is his electoral pitch.
No longer is the aim to govern for all, but to govern for only those that support your agenda and the rest can go whistle.
It’s been this way since May’s “citizens of nowhere” speech heralded the new age in British democracy. The age in which political leaders of the right, and the left, decided proven electoral lawbreaking didn’t undermine democracy.
And now the very nature of our governance is up for grabs.
Many say, with no little justification, that FPTP has had its day. If they eventually prevail in changing the system, with no help from the old duopoly who quite like it, FPTP will he replaced by something more representative.
And representative democracy is the way we’ve usually done it. And if we allowed the question to be direct, it was heavily safeguarded.
Not so with Brexit. An advisory referendum, corrupted by the unscrupulous, has been transformed magically into a mandate from the heavens, regardless of the crime and snake oil and risk.
And once more direct democracy’s advisory Brexit goes to the representative ballot box. December 12th.
A representative parliament. The people choose who represents them. It’s been a good system. So many are too overworked to decide on matters of daily governance. Or too ill. Or too young. Or too dumb, that too. Those who refuse to inform themselves and allow the spin doctors and media to hold sway. So we guard against all by employing people to make it their job to protect us and progress the country.
But the system is at breaking point. The thick are in the ascendancy within and without the hallowed halls.
December 12th, the make or break of representative democracy? Either way it will be a day to remember.