Value the Power of your Consent

VALUE THE POWER OF

YOUR CONSENT

And the power of your withheld consent

According to an article in the business section of The Telegraph on Sunday, 23 April 2017, overall, combining the previous costs of running elections and the likely spend in this year's campaigns, the 2017 General Election is estimated to cost around £170m.

I put it to you that this estimate isn’t even close to the real cost and it is, anyway, a mere monetary cost. The TRUE cost is higher, much higher. I believe we are being called in all manner of slippery ways to what I can only describe as mass delusion or even insanity.

Attributed variously to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Rita Mae Brown, Beth Moore, Mark Silber, Henry Ford, the grammatically incorrect Tony Robbins, and others, the essential statement is: 

and

 

ANY ARGUMENTS?

It’s OK. I didn’t expect (m)any.

Everyone who hasn’t been in a coma for the last few weeks knows that a General Election has been called in UK while the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011 is still in force. The Act provides for a General election to be held every five years on the first Thursday in May. But, as is so often the case, there is a get-out clause. An early election may be called “If a motion for an early general election is agreed either by at least two-thirds of the House or without division. Political party members in the House of Commons agreed by 522 to 13 to allow an early General Election. Politicians ALWAYS have the next election on their minds. YOU weren’t asked. Only those with vested interest were asked, which is ‘normal’.

OK, that’s the background. Unspoken and unwritten is the implicit idea that, for whatever reason, 522 party representatives (give or take a few who will anyway choose to stand down) believed they have a reasonable chance of re-election. Or they expected some form of political isolation or retribution if they failed to agree to the call. Perhaps ex-communication from the party? Perish the thought. 

Nevertheless, they decided amongst themselves that the public could be deluded once more into believing that their votes will bring about change. They have perpetrated a staged illusion. As I said earlier. . .

AND

Here’s a good suggestion: Print those two signs and stick them on your refrigerator door. Read them daily and think about their message. Then admit in your heart of hearts:

AND 

THAT IS THE TRUE COST OF OUR

IMMINENT GENERAL ELECTION

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So what can we do?

1.  Make it your purpose to be part of the movement that seeks electoral change! Change from the ‘no longer fit for purpose’ voting system that party leaders love so much.

2.  Never use a postal ballot. The opportunity and temptation to manipulate postal ballots is huge – and proven. Why make it easy?

3.  Ignore political party leaders. You can’t vote for them unless you live in the constituency in which they stand for election. You know that you may only vote for a candidate in your own constituency, don’t you?

4.  Recognise that something in each party manifesto will more or less reflect some of your views. But recognise, too, that the party exists only to continue the existence of the party – and nothing more than that. So ignore the party and its siren calls.

5.  Seek out the Independent candidates in your own constituency. If they reflect your own view of the world, get behind them and encourage your neighbours to do the same.

6.  Lastly, if you cannot be comfortable getting behind your local Independent candidate, spoil your ballot paper, and ask your neighbours to do the same. Spoil them in the same way so it is clear that there is a movement for change. WHY? Because even spoiled ballot papers are counted and the numbers are published. Not voting isn’t a genuine option. A non-voter’s hopes and aspirations are not counted and don’t count – literally.

7.  Be assured that those candidates who represent a political party will review the spoiled papers. If hundreds of papers have been marked “None of the above” the discontent will be noticed provided sufficient people join the action, not just on 8^th June but every time we are called to vote.

8.  Above all

Cause no harm

Be honest

Be peaceful

Recognise that we are sovereign beings and NO ONE has the right to rule over you without your consent. NO ONE.

MAKE YOUR CONSENT VALUEABLE

(See also www.bloodlessrevolution.co.uk)