“Do or die, come what may!”
When Boris Johnson assumed the office of Prime Minister on 24th July this year, he appeared full of gusto, full of determination and full of vim and vigour. Standing in Downing Street, outside number 10, he promised in his first speech as Prime Minister, to “restore trust in democracy”. He said: ‘We will come out [of the EU] on 31 October, no ifs and no buts. We will do a new deal and a better…
The Proroguing of Parliament and the Abuse of Democracy
Following Boris Johnson’s recent announcement of the temporary suspension of Parliament in the run up to a new Queen’s speech, and as the deadline for our exit from the European Union (EU) looms closer, there is much spoken about “the abuse of democracy” or “the death of democracy” by spokespeople for the liberal-left. Their calls for people to “take to the streets” have largely gone unheeded however, despite the best efforts of our mass media…
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot
Following the showing of the first part, just over a week ago, of the new BBC drama serial ‘Gunpowder’, BBC executives have been criticised for what many have regarded as the unnecessarily gruesome and gory presentation of the Guy Fawkes November 5th plot to blow up parliament. While the programme allegedly features the most violent and viscerally gory scenes of torture and execution ever screened on primetime television, and disturbing though these scenes have been,…
The Path to Power – Revisited
By Max Musson: The United Kingdom is a democratic state and has in place a system of constitutional and electoral democracy extending back over hundreds of years, and therefore when people feel dissatisfied with the way in which our country is currently being governed, it is only natural that they first seek to gain political influence through electioneering and through the current parliamentary, party political system. The Democratic Fallacy: What appears to be, and what…
Parliament Stunned by French Revelations!
By Max Musson: Yesterday, Natacha Bouchart, the Mayor of Calais, cleared up a mystery that has apparently baffled Parliament for decades. It seems that for many years parliamentarians have wondered why it is that countless thousands of economic migrants have resorted to the most bizarrely dangerous means of getting into Britain. They have squeezed themselves into the engine compartments of motor vehicles; they have squeezed into the wheel arches and hung from the axles and…
Rivers of Blood
By Enoch Powell: The full transcript of Enoch Powell’s so called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20th 1968. The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their…
United States of Europe or a Europe of Nations?
By Markus Willinger: The Ukraine crisis has not only shown that the old conflict between America and Russia still exists. It has also made it clear that Europe is still the locus of this conflict, but without any independent power of its own to affect the outcome. The Russians and the Americans argue about redrawing borders within Europe, and they don’t care what we Europeans think about it. They don’t care because they don’t need…
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…