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Dan's avatar

I see no solution available within the current political system.

We are forced to live within the endlessly corrupted left-right paradigm, which is desperately continuing to pump out the threadbare illusion of democracy. Many are still drawn in by the spectacle and theatre of it all, still believing on some level that their vote makes a difference and that they have a real stake in deciding what happens.

Among the many things that has been laid bare over the last two years is that never more than now has the truth of the observation that whichever party gets into office, the real governing principles of a nation as corrupt as many in the West are, will not change significantly. The interests and profiles of the global puppet masters actually controlling nations grow ever more apparent as even the pretence of democratic process drains away.

The cancerous effect of this creeping globalisation is compounded by the centuries old problem of party politics. Ben Greene successfully identified this issue many years ago. If political parties are permitted, as a means of representing the interests of constituents, to exist, the unavoidable outcome is that, due to the competitive nature of the political process an MPs loyalty will always be first to the political party to which they belong.

It has subverted parliament as a genuine means of representing the interests of the people. It also makes the system much more vulnerable to corruption by outside interests. With the party system, only a few top officials need to be co-opted in order to achieve quite significant influence.

While I think the whole system of government here in the UK is most probably beyond repair and too fundamentally flawed to ever produce a solution for the people by the people, one last roll of the dice might be to ban membership of a political party, with only demonstrably independent MPs, who verifiably have the support of a majority of their constituents, permitted to represent them in parliament.

If their employment depended on genuinely representing the views of their constituents, even if they themselves did not necessarily agree with them, then we might, just might, see some real change for the better...

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

You might want to learn about the peak story a bit further... https://canadianpatriot.org/

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