representative democracy", let alone Swiss-style "direct democracy", by allowing at least one MP to attend - that represented an alternative view of the people.
IT would appear that EVEN so-called "representative democracy" IS DEAD in the UK and it would seem rapidly becoming the case in the Eurozone influenced European Union.
From the ONLY man that I still TRUST in British Politics today - Alistair Darling -
Cyprus is doing "everything you should not do" after the tiny country decided to seize around 6.75 per cent from smaller deposits and almost 10 per cent from larger ones.
The country is currently deciding whether to make richer savers pay a bigger proportion of the bill but Mr Darling said the whole idea of taking money from ordinary savers is dangerous.
He said EU should not be letting Cyprus "blow apart" the principle of protecting deposits under €100,000, as people will start pulling their cash out of banks if they fear this elsewhere.
"It seems to me to make it more likely that if you’re a saver in Spain or Italy, if you have a sniff of the EU or the IMF coming your way you’ll take your money out and you’ll get a run on the bank," he told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.
"So what they’re doing is everything you should NOT DO when you’re trying to solve a problem like this."
GOVERMENTS should very definitely
BE afraid of the reactions of their PEOPLES -
and the PEOPLE should not be afraid of voting into
power - GOVERNMENTS
- of the PEOPLE
- by the PEOPLE
- for the PEOPLE
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ish historian and statesman, arrived in America for an extended tour in the middle of the 1880s, at a time not unlike our own. It was the height of the Gilded Age, and the country was grappling with inequalities of wealth, rising levels of immigration, rapid economic transition and questions about the United States’ role in the world. An astute chronicler–he was a practicing politician, a venerable professor of civil law at Oxford, and would later serve as the British ambassador to the U.S.–Bryce published his reflections in a two-volume work, The American Commonwealth.
Among his insights was a warning of the dangers of a renegade President. To Bryce, the real threat to the Constitution came as much from the people as from the White House. Disaster would strike American democracy, Bryce believed, at the hands of a demagogic President with an enthusiastic public base. “A bold President who knew himself to be supported by a majority in the country, might be tempted to override the law,” Bryce wrote. “He might be a tyrant, not against the masses, but with the masses.” BY JON MEACHAM - TIME MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 7, 2019
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e necessary change, which was and still [IS] required, to establish a NEW template-solution model of FUNCTIONAL DEMOCRACY of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE and potentially for ALL the passengers of spaceship EARTH, to urgently address the long since understood consequences of Climate Change and the unraveling threat of Nuclear War as a result of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, along with ALL the consequences of consequences of our so called Lords & Masters lack of appropriate action since the end of WWII.
Never forgetting that BRITAIN [IS] in RUINS since our so-calledHM Government shelled out £106M on a committee which concluded that "SARS won't TRAVEL THIS FAR"
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tleman with a pornographic belly tattoo, who answered his door armed only with a rather petite towel and several technical questions about the EU, looms in my memory. So do the elderly West Indian couple who asked Labour’s position. They dismissed Jeremy Corbyn, and Chuka Umunna, their MP, as irrelevant, preferring “proper Labour”, which they defined as Kate Hoey.
Canvassing can be comedic and revealing (sometimes literally). But I’m haunted by the scores of people who said some variation of: “I’ll vote Leave, but they won’t ever let us do it, even if we win.”
I gave each a direct answer: no, that’s wrong. This is a democracy. We are not made to vote again and again until we give the answer our superiors want; here, the mighty must do as they are instructed by the electorate.
I still believe Brexit will happen. But they were closer to the mark than I believed, those pessimistic Leavers.
Observe those campaigning to ignore the biggest vote ever cast in our history. A slew of the elite are so accustomed to getting their way that they are straining every sinew to breach the basic covenant of our democracy.…
Added by Michael Grove at 22:09 on December 30, 2018
ulatory changes that promote corporate interests at the expense of democratically enacted laws. In short, the treaties represent an astonishing assault on democracy and national sovereignty, threatening not only existing public-interestlaws, but the ability of governments to pass such laws in the future.
... and as ALL of this CORPORATE self-serving manipulation continues to drive the, value for money seeking, people to the abyss - or should that be Aldi and Lidl - here we have the emperors clothes of TESCO torn away to reveal even the ineptitude of Warren Buffet's wise decision to invest in 7% of Tesco's business.Leodardo da Vinci concluded towards the end of his life ... ALL is in NATURE - WE ARE a circumstance of NATURE
What the peoples of the world now require IS - "A needs-based economy or localisation, in accordance with the law of Nature, as the ONLY remedy to the problems we face"
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