CLEARING THE WEEDS IN THE POLITICAL GARDEN
As any gardener knows, the first
thing you have got to do in sorting out a flower bed that has become choked
with weeds is to remove all the weeds and cut out any of the dead flowers etc.
in order to make it worthwhile digging in your fertilizer or compost and planting
your new plants.
This is the sort of stage that we
have reached with our Parliament, which is now stuffed, in both the Commons and the
Lords, with people who are not merely unpatriotic, but are actually anti-patriotic
and are hostile to the very idea of our Nation.
They are Internationalists and Multiculturalists.
For our national politics to
flourish we need to see such weeds removed from our political flowerbed and
also all the deadwood and old decayed plants as well, so that we can have a
fresh and more honest and a patriotic revival!
In this sense it is welcome to see
that Boris Johnson’s Government has had the guts to withdraw the Whip from all
those Conservative MPs that betrayed the trust that had been placed in them by
voting against Boris Johnson this week.
Even better was seeing Amber Rudd
resign form Cabinet and the Conservative Party in response. She is the classic
career-minded entryist who, in ideological terms, is a Liberal Democrat
Remainer, Multiculturalist, Globalist, but could see that her career prospects
would be better if she badged up as a Conservative.
These people were all elected on the
ticket of implementing Brexit and, as ‘Conservatives’ were expected to be
loyal, not only to their manifesto mandate, the country, but also to their
Party Leader. They proved disloyal on
all counts. They have no place to be
remaining in our Parliament and it will be good to have them all thrown out of
Parliament come the next General Election.
As for those who have crossed the
floor to join other parties, they have gone fully beyond the pale and so will
have to stand or fall come the next General Election with their new party
rosettes on. Let’s see what their local
electorates make of them then! I suspect
none of them will be re-elected.
Less visibly, our Left-wing biased
media has been more coy about reporting the movement of Labour MPs to the
Liberal Democrats. The latest one being
Luciana Berger.
Looked at from the point of view of
purging our politics of the corrupt old ideologically meaningless “broad
church” Establishment parties of Labour and the Conservatives, both of these developments
are to be welcomed.
We need to move to a
politics where its voters can rely upon a party label to tell us much of what
is in the political tin, as we would expect to be able to do if we were buying
tinned food.
If an ordinary trader made
a business out of putting labels of baked beans on tins of peas, they could
expect to be prosecuted under the Trades Description Act. We urgently need something similar with our
politicians to enable us to hold them to account if they fail to deliver on
what they promised when they were standing for election.
I notice that those MPs that
betrayed their electorates often talk about Edmund Burke’s idea that he was “a
representative” of his electorate rather than his electorates “delegate”. It is however worth remembering that, despite
that explanation sounding quite grand, in fact at the next election, when he had
proved himself to be unwilling to do what his electorate wanted him to do, he
lost his seat! And quite right too!
We need to move away from the bogus
pretences of so-called “Liberal Democracy”, where undemocratic elites hide behind
the pretence of democracy. I think that we need to move
instead to a proper functioning “Popular Democracy” where politicians are
expected to live up to focussing on doing what is needed to be done to deliver
the Will of the People.
What do you think?
