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Good luck to the Jury Team – but how do you change a system which is protected so heavily by the vested interests of existing political parties, the monarchy, the church, the civil service, etc..? A peaceful revolution would be ideal if that wasn’t a contradiction in terms, and anything more radical than that would have the boys in blue sent out with riot shields crying "Treason!". No doubt anything or anyone which presented even the remotest disagreement – never mind threat – to the current system would be under surveillance by MI5, MI6, the SAS and you’d be banged up for a 25-year stretch in jail before you could say ‘proportional representation’. All this in a ‘free society’ which is supposed to be the mother of democracies. The odds against achieving REAL political change would be a joke if it wasn’t such a serious and hopeless situation. Of course, professional political journalists, commentators and bloggers also have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo for obvious reasons, so you’re always going to get a sneering response from them to radical change. Making a real change needs a massive shift in the way ordinary citizens understand – and engage with – politics and their own government. They COULD do it if mobilised and empowered, but it’s a big ‘if’. Bankers and politicians have certainly made us very angry and maybe it’s a good time to propose change. When the monarchy angered us, Cromwell almost managed to rid us of them for good. But whether anything short of a real national disaster would stir us enough to get rid of the corrupt and un-democratic governing elite is a matter of debate. |
Changing what is effectively a two-party system is a long-shot – but anyone who thinks it’s worth a try should have our support.
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