What Use Parliment
December 23, 2009 by Ken
Filed under Westminster
Yes Mr Redwood, it becomes difficult to frame programmes that will interest all UK voters, when most of the areas of government are also influenced by the EU and other international bodies. You have posed a lopsided question by only referring to the powers lost to the regional assemblies in Scotland and Wales, (themselves an EU construct) perhaps the real debate that would be of interest to the whole of the UK is the worth of a Westminster parliament in this post democratic era.
What we do know is whoever the participants from the three main parties in these programmes are, they will be only pretending that these elections are meaningful or that those we elect will have any power to decide on most of the laws which affect us. As such they will be taking part in a charade because all of the bread and butter issues are no longer decided by those we elect to Westminster. All we will be doing is to elect the party that will then select who our representatives will be in our real government and as that is socialist to the core one is left wondering what place Conservatism has in the future of this EU subsidiary state.
In all honesty the problem all you MPs have is to make yourselves appear relevant when we all know you are increasingly becoming superfluous to the running of this country and that, more than anything else is what you stand to gain from a televised debate between three leaders, all of whom are quite happy to be nothing more than EU front men. The problem of the parties is to make themselves appear different when in reality they are all offering exactly the same polices, as these are no longer determined by what is best for this sovereign nation state, but what can be fitted into a predetermined EU framework.
Gisela Stuart
“If the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified and devolution…continues apace, in fifteen to twenty years this House of Commons will have only two functions…to raise taxes and…to authorise war”.
Lord Tebbit
The Conservative party of today is trying to find a place for itself within a basically socialist structure.
