Wednesday 8 August 2018

All the Muse that's fit to print


AUGUST 2018.
“There is an historic opportunity not to be missed following Brexit. To achieve it, ‘We the People’ have to acquire our own elected Independent Representatives. Why? Because, the established leaders of both the Brexit and Remain campaigns and all the political parties refuse to debate the main economic issue of our time. And what is this “main economic issue”? It is that the usurious, fraudulent debt-based currency system which impoverishes and enfetters all of us is intended to hold sway in Britain whether or not we extricate ourselves from the EU and whoever wins the next general election … We must not allow Theresa, Boris, Nigel and MPs to continue to dodge the issue.”

Kenn d’Oudney - Extract from DEMOCRACY DEFINED: The Manifesto 
ISBN 978-1-902848-26-6.
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Did you understand that? I implore you: P-l-e-a-s-e, read it again. Slowly. Then think about it for a while.

1.  The author urges us to elect our own Independent Representatives to Parliament. Why? 

2.  Because history/experience shows that there is little to choose between any of the established political parties and party leaders who refuse – all of them – to take a serious look at the main economic issue. By that I mean the fraudulent, interest-bearing, debt-based monetary system that holds all of us in its grip and throttles our hearts, minds, and souls so that others/they may profit.

A wise man once wrote to his young friend that ‘the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.’ What if that’s true?  I have to say that, for too many of us, it seems to be true. Clearly, there is no limit to what some people will do to obtain money and personal, family, corporate and national advantage. You know it is true. All of us know it to be true.

But why is it true?

A different, earlier writer put it this way: “The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”

I don’t think he is referring to ‘the heart’ – the organ that’s beating in your chest and mine. But it might be the reason why someone, somewhere linked heart and mind to mean one and the same thing. Whichever, it seems to me to be a bit scary to learn that I can’t really trust anyone to always do the right thing even if that someone is one of the ‘nice’ people of this world. The basic human design seems to be faulty.

So, back to the money, and Parliament and who should represent me/you there. Did you know that as far back as 1836 there were stirrings among the people of this land which led to the formation of the original Chartist Movement?

(The Prime Minister at the time was William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. In those days his political party was known as Whigs, defined as the English political party or group that opposed the succession to the throne of James, Duke of York in 1679 on the grounds that he was a Catholic. 

Standing for a limited monarchy, the Whigs represented the great aristocracy and the money middle class for the next 80 years. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Whigs represented the desires of industrialists and Dissenters for political and social reform and provided the core of the Liberal Party. Then the Chartist Movement came on the scene seeking changes. They wanted to make government more transparent and accountable to the people. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

They sought six essential changes:
1. A vote for all men over 21
2. The secret ballot
3. No property qualification to become an MP
4. Payment for MPs
5. Electoral districts of equal numerical size
6. Annual elections for Parliament

How times have changed.
(1) Today women’s suffrage prevails and some so-called ‘progressives’ would lower the voting age from 18 to 16. I wonder why?
(2) The Chartists sought secret ballots. I’m sure they couldn’t begin to imagine postal ballots! Or voting via proxy.
(3) In 2016 the Guardian newspaper reported that the number of MPs supplementing their incomes by acting as landlords had risen by a quarter since the last parliament, with David Cameron and George Osborne among those earning extra money by renting out properties. According to Guardian research, almost a third of MPs are now letting out their houses or flats, with 196 declaring rental income on the official register of interests this year. The majority of those are earning more than £10,000 a year from the property.
(4) Payment for MPs. Ah, yes. A good and needed development, or not, depending on your point of view. An MP’s basic annual salary is £76,000 p.a.. PLUS upwards of £41,000 if the MP becomes a common or garden Minister of State; PLUS expenses. I know of at least one MP who is also a Minister of State, who is married to another MP who is also a Minister of State. That’s 2 x £76,000, plus 2 x £41,000, plus 2 x expenses per annum. Plus probable house rental income. Indeedy – times have changed. Smell the gravy.
(5) Equal size electoral districts. As population and demographics change, they’re still working on this one. It keeps the bean counters employed.
(6) Annual elections for Parliament. Today we have fixed term parliaments of five years.
Although I have the right to vote I am not yet compelled to vote. But if I fail to register to vote once the Registration Officer has ‘invited’ me to register I could be fined up to £1,000. It’s known as ‘an offer you cannot refuse’. Do you get the feeling that NONE of this is about your benefit or mine? Parliament is a Closed User Group organised and controlled by political parties. You and I don’t belong there unless we insist upon it.
Which brings me to the thought that I’d like YOU to think about before we meet again. Namely,

They (the politicians, the legislators, the bankers,
the Civil and not-so-civil Servants) can do no more than that which we let them do.

WHY?


Because the People are sovereign.
 Parliament, Parliamentarians, and Civil Servants,
are our hired help but too many of them
have become far too uppity

DON’T EVER FORGET IT!

This is a Common Law country
and we MUST guard that blessing jealously.
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NEXT TIME: WHERE DOES MONEY COME FROM?
(Tell them about the money, Mummy)

       

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