Democracy. Used to be a comforting word. Four syllables that implied stability, safety, a limit to extremes, a sanctuary for consensus.
Now, lets be fair, democracy has always been more of a concept, an aspiration, than an actual. Whatever the particulars, the format, the construction, it remains a path that has not yet reached its end.
And, until recently, that would be okay. Evolution takes time, and the more variables you throw into the mix, the longer the next iteration will take to emerge.
There have been blips along the way, especially in countries where universal suffrage is a recent phenomenon. What started as exultation has sometimes dissolved into repression once the glow of freedom has died down, but the road, in principle, is heading the right direction.
And, as the UK has always been regarded as a long standing democracy, the assumption would be that its structures were sound.
But ……
The electoral and political system in the UK is not a democracy. Everyone has the option of a voice, but not every voice is heard. Historians may scream ‘wrong’, but as far as I am aware, in the last 100 years, not one government has come to power with a mandate of more than at least 50% of the electorate. More than 50% of voters, certainly, but that is a very different scenario.
And, although the membership of the political decision-makers has changed over time, the majority is still narrowly focussed through the influence prism of school, university, family and connection that has retained power for centuries.
It was recently described to me as a benign autocracy, which is as good a description as any, but certainly not a democracy. And yet the term has become, of late, a very useful factional weapon to attack whatever seems the most effective target to create instability.
There is no such thing as a true, and therefore perfect democracy, but revisionist and reactionary anarchy is certainly not the best alternative.
For better or worse, we have a well established process where a small number of people are selected – sort of – by the populus to make decisions on there behalf, with the proviso that if the cock it up, they can be replaced at regular intervals.
And that was the structure, the ‘democracy’, that apparently was voted in favour of by 37% of the electorate – the minority majority.
It is now being dismantled by a very small cabal of callous, self serving, egocentric and morally defunct megalomaniacs, who see power, personal glory and personal greed as the justification for infecting the majority with instability, uncertainty, and suffering.
Their arrogance is based on the knowledge that, whatever happens they will be absolutely fine, even prosper because of an expansion of pain and misery.
And it is clear that their intention is to create instability, because they are systematically attacking the pillars that hold society together. Parliament, the judiciary, the electoral system itself.
Not one of them will suffer if the edifice of a democratic UK collapses, and that is the best indicator of their complicity in reversal of the evolution to date.
The EU needed reform, but that cannot be done by walking away.
Our democratic processes need reform, but that cannot be achieved by handing the country over to the charlatans in No. 10.
Seventeen million plus of the populus made a fundamental error in 2016, based on fabrications and misdirection.
They need another chance, before the asylum becomes the best place to be.
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