The British System of Government
Britain is a constitutional monarchy. That means it is a country governed by a king or a queen who accepts the advice of a parliament. It is also a parliamentary democracy. That is, it is a country whose government is controlled by a parliament which has been elected by the people.
So, in theory we do but in practice I think not!
The more I think of how Democracy works in the UK the more I realise it doesn’t. When we enter the Polling Station to register our vote our part in Democracy starts, when we leave that Polling Station have put our cross beside whatever name, our part in Democracy ends!
This is because we have handed our Democratic rights to another person, when I say handed, I mean ‘given’. From then on that person can act in any way they wish. We are meant to believe they rule for us when in reality they rule over us! Party Politics takes over from Politics of the people and that is in direct opposition to The Claim of Right.
No wonder Holyrood MSPs want nothing to do with the Claim of Right, and those aspiring to get there or back there don’t want to know either!
We the People, the ELECTORATE have been hoodwinked into thinking we live in a Democratic Country, this conclusion is false.
We are invited to vote on a Manifesto, a few headline Policies dressed up to appeal to us but when it comes down to it those headlines represent nothing like the end game. Take the recent Police and protesting Laws introduced, did the headline suggest peaceful protest would be so restricted to the point if you walked too slow or shouted too loudly you could be arrested? Or the protest itself could not be held on the same day as the event you are protesting is being held?
And here in Scotland when the small one-liner was added to the SNP Manifesto about continuing with Trans Rights, did you see that as allowing Trans men into women private spaces thus scrapping existing Women’s Rights?
But we are partly to blame here, because not enough of us cared to go along to Hustings to ask what was behind the Headline Policy. A lot of things need to change in the future because as we have learned ‘giving power to MPs and MSPs does not work in our favour.
Add to that the Policies and Laws that pop up out of nowhere in order to control us. Democracy does not mean being controlled!
The system we have must change, it cannot be that by giving a vote to a person or party we actually lose our democracy for up to five years. The Right of Recall is denied. Power given becomes power denied to us, the Sovereign People .
This does not mean we stop voting, but we must be more a astute and engaged at the Hustings stage, call them out, ask the hard questions until Power is restored to us again.
And that will only happen through Salvo and The Liberation Movement.
I cannot emphasise this enough, we do not live in a Democratic Country as long as we keep keep giving our Democratic Rights away at the Ballot Box as is the present system.
JOAN’S JOURNEY CONTINUES 