The People Have Spoken?
June 7th 2009 17:20
So, as predicted by experts and non-experts alike, the UK government took a good kicking at the county council elections earlier in the week. Such a kicking that they lost control of every council in their charge where voting took place.
If you noticed, the title of this post has a question mark. The reason this is so is because I'm wondering if the people have actually spoken. Only 30% of those entitled to vote actually bothered. This means that the council seats, and the hiring and firing of councillors has been done by less than a third of the people. I wonder how many of the 70% who didn't bother will now be moaning about the result.
This should be a 'wake-up' call to the government but, naturally, it won't be. The present government, with its Prime Minister foisted upon the public by the Labour party without any voice from the people, and with a cabinet that includes seven members who have never been voted in by the people, don't bother listening to the people. A promised referendum of the European constitution has never materialised; the promise of limiting immigration to only those migrants willing to work has never materialised and this paralysed bunch of hypocrites are now running around trying to save their skins instead of knuckling down to finding ways of saving the country from its economic meltdown.
This Labour government has its own, unique idea of what democracy means. I wonder what the members will now be thinking after seeing true democracy at work, even though only 30% of the populace entitled to vote actually did so.
If you noticed, the title of this post has a question mark. The reason this is so is because I'm wondering if the people have actually spoken. Only 30% of those entitled to vote actually bothered. This means that the council seats, and the hiring and firing of councillors has been done by less than a third of the people. I wonder how many of the 70% who didn't bother will now be moaning about the result.
This should be a 'wake-up' call to the government but, naturally, it won't be. The present government, with its Prime Minister foisted upon the public by the Labour party without any voice from the people, and with a cabinet that includes seven members who have never been voted in by the people, don't bother listening to the people. A promised referendum of the European constitution has never materialised; the promise of limiting immigration to only those migrants willing to work has never materialised and this paralysed bunch of hypocrites are now running around trying to save their skins instead of knuckling down to finding ways of saving the country from its economic meltdown.
This Labour government has its own, unique idea of what democracy means. I wonder what the members will now be thinking after seeing true democracy at work, even though only 30% of the populace entitled to vote actually did so.
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