This website was born out of deep anger and frustration at a political establishment which over the decades has increasingly treated the British public with contempt.
It explains how our democracy is being eroded - and spells out how together we ordinary people can halt the slide into bureaucratic tyranny.
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Some figures on the amount of taxpayers money the political parties are going to steal from us are emerging, as reported in the Guardian “If state funding is to be designed to displace the large donations (ie more than £100,000) of the two main parties, the taxpayer would need to provide £6m in a non-election year to each party and £12m in an election year. These sums would have to be index-linked.” ….. public funding cannot be designed only for the big parties. “If the smaller parties were to qualify on equitable principles, it is possible the taxpayer would need to provide another £6m in a non-election year and £12m in an election year to be divided among the small parties.
“If the smaller parties were to qualify on equitable principles”
We can already see that the two major parties are going to use this as an excuse to cut out funding from smaller parties, by capping the amounts that can be contributed by individuals and then setting hoops for smaller parties to jump through before they can qualify to obtain funding. Will be setting condition on democracy, only those parties which conform to the rules set out by the political elites will find they are allowed funding, the others will find themselves out in the cold, and all this will be done using our money.
I feel very depressed at the onward march of the lunatic politicos who seem to have no idea how their plans are so very wrong, and so very damaging to the democratic principals of
I see I am not the only one who thinks Cameron is loosing the core vote
Sir - I have voted Conservative at every possible opportunity. I did so because I believe in its inherent principles. I believe in the market and I believe in low taxation. It is on these principles that I will vote (or not vote) at the next election.
Mr Cameron has had a superb start to his leadership. But it has been too one-sided for some. While the party needs to win over an army of voters in the centre, if he does so at the expense of a small group on the ideological Right, it will have all been in vain.
The Conservative Party can strike a balance. But the core vote isn’t guaranteed. If the next four years are anything like the past four months, many of us will be sorely tempted to stay at home and remind the party how much it needs us, albeit too late.
Peter Littleton, Birmingham
Simon Heffer has done so today again the Telegraph “We’re teetering on the brink of an elective dictatorship” I don’t know about teetering I would have thought that we already had and elected dictatorship.
Heffer ends his article with a plea to Labour MPs to stop this nonsense, and asks for a strait answer to a strait question: what is so wrong with our democracy that Labour wishes so ruthlessly to end it?
“In 1968, when the last serious attempt was made to reform the Lords, Labour and Tory backbenchers united to stop proposals that would have put the Lords under the control of the Commons’ whips. Parliament must think very carefully and urgently about mounting a similar mission to prevent
Would they be happy for the House of Lords to have an entirely ornamental function, whether or not its members are partially or wholly elected? Or do they trust a combination of their own loyalists and the Prime Minister himself to make laws that not only bypass the Lords, but can, if necessary, bypass the Commons, too?
I address this question to Labour backbenchers, because it will be they who have the power to stop such nonsense. The Lords wisely decided not to die in the last ditch in 1911: but they might as well die there now, in the cause not of partisan self-interest (as was the case 95 years ago), but of defending liberty and our constitution. Frankly, these plans are so absolutist that one could make a strong case that the Queen should abdicate rather than give her assent to either of them.
To obviate that horror she, Parliament and the British public must demand a straight answer to a straight and vital question: what is so wrong with our democracy that Labour wishes so ruthlessly to end it?”
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We cannot know if David Cameron’s decision to insult the
If the Conservatives have a strategy to denigrate UKIP, in the hope of halting the erosion of their own vote, they should remember Michael Howard’s blunder before the 2004 European elections. When he called UKIP leaders “cranks and gadflies”, their vote climbed appreciably. Given the commendable cussedness of the British, Mr Cameron’s suggestion that party members are “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” will almost certainly have the same effect.
Some UKIP members are no doubt mad and bad. So are some Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat members. Mr Cameron’s real error, however, is that while UKIP has supporters from across the political spectrum, all equally disenchanted with the bland centrism of the main parties, the fact is that UKIP takes its votes overwhelmingly from the Tories.
There is a reason for this. Conservatism has never been a pan-national movement; its origins are in the proud patriotism of Pitt, Disraeli and Churchill. Without being narrowly insular, the Tory party has traditionally believed the basis of politics to be the self-government of the
Rather than a strategic move, it is more likely that Mr Cameron’s remark was an off-the-cuff expression of what he considers a normal and unobjectionable view. This bodes ill for the cause of the Conservative Party at the next election. Westminster types, to be sure, may regard single-issue fringe parties as strange fruit, a distraction from the task of gaining the “centre ground” and so winning power. But it is precisely this sneering indifference to people’s passionate concerns that makes them so fed up with politics. The Tory leader should apologise.
Although I am not a member of UKIP I have said for a long time that the Tory leadership is making a big mistake if they think that denigrating the parties members, will bring back Tory deserters or stop further leakage from Tory ranks. Because the grassroot conservatives find an eco of their own feelings in the UKIP stance on the EU.
No matter how much noise the leadership makes it cannot turn its back on the wishes of its own supporters and still expect them to remain true to a party that is changing its values. It is the Tory leadership which is out of step not the members, and it is the fault of the Tory leadership that its members are deserting the cause.
David Cameron should remember that those who are deserting his party are only the tip of the iceberg, There are many Conservatives voters who are not members of the party who are also going to be withholding their vote at the next election. Those votes are up for grabs, but not to a party whose leaders think that supporting your own country is the territory of a fruitcake.
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