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Tag: Parliament of the United Kingdom

  • Tory Nightmares: The Return of Nigel Farage

    Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage.  Fewer have done so while failing to win office.  In seven attempts at standing for a seat in the UK House of Commons between 1994 and 2015, the votes to get him across the line have failed to materialise.  […]

  • Elite Fear Of The Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange

    Elite Fear Of The Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange

    It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated in ostensible ‘democracies’. But public opinion needs to be managed, manipulated or, if necessary, simply ignored. After all, as Noam Chomsky has said, real ‘democracy is […]

  • Bypassing Parliament: Westminster, the Royal Prerogative and Bombing Yemen

    There is something distinctly revolting and authoritarian about the royal prerogative.  It reeks of clandestine assumption, unwarranted self-confidence and, most of all, a blithe indifference to accountability before elected representatives.  That prerogative, in other words, is the last reminder of divine right, the fiction that a ruler can have powers vested by an unsubstantiated deity, […]

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