British Democracy In Decline
By Max Musson: As the day of the General Election draws near, falling party memberships, falling voter turnout and diminishing respect for those in public life are all factors signalling a widening gulf between those in government and the people they are meant to represent. In recent decades voter turnout at general elections had been gradually falling, dropping from 83.9 % in 1950 to 77.7% in 1992 and following which there was a marked drop of over six percentage points to…
Who Should We Vote For?
By John Salisbury: There are two important elections taking place in the near future and, for the first time, I find myself participating in discussions with other nationalists about which party it is best to vote for and whether it is actually worthwhile to vote at all. I believe that these questions deserve addressing in some detail because they are important ones; voting is one of the few ways in which British nationalists can…
A Brief History of Democracy
By Kasredin: During the nineteenth century there was a struggle in this country and elsewhere to achieve real democracy – or, as it was then termed, universal suffrage. There was a groundswell of opinion that every man should have the vote, and some people even felt that women should not be excluded. Parliamentary democracy took a long time to gain popularity. The first parliaments were held in the thirteenth century, and were basically a way…