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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Conquest
state</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">For
many years, it has been common knowledge that the executive of
the British
state is too powerful. But it is perhaps worth mentioning that
this subjection
works its way down all thru the hierarchy. Thus the government,
meaning the
executive, has too many members of Parliament on its payroll,
compromising the
independence of the legislature. And hardly any simple
legislators are allowed
to legislate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">The
classic statement of the case was in 1997, by incoming PM Tony
Blair, who
lectured his new intake of Labour MPs that: You are not here to
have ideas of
your own.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">He
could not have said that to MPs who owed their loyalty to the
multitude rather
than the ministers. And that can never be with party-subservient
election
systems. But that is the humiliating price for MPs putting
incumbency before
democracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">This
humiliation is conveniently passed on from MPs to their
constituents. There are
650 MPs in parliament, but no constituent is allowed to approach
more than one
of them. All 650 MPs affect the lives of every person in the
land. But only a
few thousand constituents in marginal constituencies can hope to
affect an
otherwise job for life of the odd MP.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">The
revolt of the elites came over a century ago, about 1885, when
the House of
Commons became, in all but name, a House of Monopolies, under
the single-member
system. This wasn’t just “a very British coup”, it was a dual
coup, whereby
House of Commons monopolism forestalled democracy, and also the
lower house
asserted itself over the upper house, on the grounds of the
democracy, it had
just devastated. In other words, new people were in power. but
they weren’t the
people. It was just a case of the conquest state being under new
management.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">“Our
democracy” as a policy advocate recently called it, is neither
ours nor a democracy.
It is doubtful </span><span
style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">UK</span><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">
elections have
ever returned even the democratic minimum of a bare majority.
The single member
system has nearly always returned a minority to power:<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The UK is a minorocracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Partisan
electoral systems, whether two-party or multi-party systems,
mean that MPs have
to follow the dictates of the national party line. Constituents
can only appeal
to their MPs over their local problems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">These
should be the jobs of local government which is kept firmly in
subservience to
that national party line. To make up for it perhaps, local
government has
directly or indirectly Draconian powers of imprisonment and
confiscation for
the state to supersede family life, with Deprivation of
Liberties; forced
adoption, accompanied by the police, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""> Regards,
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Richard
Lung.<br>
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