In the recent past, elected parliaments in countries
such as the USSR, East Germany and China were the subject of derision and scorn
by people living secure and free in their multi-party democracies such as the
British and other European nationals.
It was indeed a laughing matter when the only party on the
ballot paper would claim a mandate with 90%+ of the votes when all political power resided with a Central Committee of the Communist Party as was the case in the former Soviet
Union.
Kremlin watchers didn’t look at opinion polls during the Supreme
Soviet elections to predict who would wield power, but to which member of the
Politburo was standing next to the President atop Lenin’s tomb during the annual
military parade though Red Square.
Beloved of western socialists was the laughable Parliament of
East Germany, the Volkskammer. It used multi-party elections to give the
impression of a true peoples Parliament. However, all the parties and
candidates were elected from a list approved by the ruling Socialist Unity
Party of Germany (SED).
The only function of this elected people’s parliament was to
give legal sanction to decisions already made by the SED and its
Politburo.
It is equally laughable in China where their Parliament, the National
People’s Congress (NPC), is appointed by other People’s Congresses lower down
the hierarchal order who are themselves appointed. Like East Germany the NPC is
a rubber stamp for decisions already made by the Communist Party.
Examples abound of elected Parliaments in communist countries
being controlled by an external power intent upon imposing its own agenda regardless of what the people want.
Looking at current events the people of Great Britain and Europe
are not laughing now at the unfortunate citizens of communist regimes. In a
matter of decades political power has been usurped and their elected
parliaments have been rendered powerless to oppose a destructive agenda that is being
imposed on them by an exterior political entity.
The twenty-eight Parliaments and legislatures of the nations
that make up the European Union have been usurped by Europhiles who have
surrendered the people’s sovereignty to the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
Like the legislatures of China, East Germany and the former USSR now serve only to give local legal sanction to decisions handed down to
them by the European Commission.
The European Parliament itself is a sham with no power to initiate or amend legislation. That power rests solely with
the unelected Commission led by a President who was the only name on the ballot
paper of a secret vote by Euro MP’s.
In Great Britain the House of Commons gives the appearance of
being the elected chamber of a sovereign Parliament deriving its just powers
from the consent of people, but the Parliamentarians have been surreptitiously surrendering
these powers to the European Union Commission without the consent of the people.
Candidates for election to this neutered parliament come from lists
approved by the various party machines not by primary elections. This ensures
that the member, if elected, does not stray from the party line.
The upper chamber of the British Parliament is an affront to
democracy equal to, if not worse, than any legislature from the communist
world.
The House of Lords is stuffed to the rafters with eight-hundred or
so lobbyists, party cronies and like-minded political hacks who have been appointed for life
by the party machines. The inhabitants of this den of iniquity include crooks, jail
birds, expense cheats, drunks and serial sexual predators including
pedophiles, none of whom can be removed by a popular vote.
More importantly most of these shameless charlatans are
Europhiles who are intent on surrendering what remains of the people’s
sovereignty to the EU Commission.
To add insult to injury, and in display of complete and utter contempt
for the people, this parliament is currently in the process of reversing the
result of the Brexit referendum which they solemnly swore to implement.
After four decades of lies and deceit, and believing they could
rig it to win in order to reverse the tide of Euroscepticism, Parliament decided to give the
people a referendum on continued membership of the EU.
Parliament overwhelmingly passed a law authorizing the once in a
lifetime, winner-take-all, binding referendum in June 2016.
In the biggest democratic exercise in British electoral history
the people voted to leave what they rightly believed to be a corrupt and increasingly authoritarian EU.
In the following General Election of 2017 both major parties included
in their manifestos a solemn promise to faithfully implement the result of the referendum.
Over eighty percent of the electorate voted for these parties.
This meant that the government and Parliament as a whole had two of the
biggest mandates in history and both of those was to leave the EU.
Subsequently, Parliament passed a law authorizing the government
to start the two-year leaving process by triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon
Treaty. That meant that March 29th 2019 would be the date that Great Britain would officially leave the EU.
Since triggering Article 50 both chambers of that same Parliament along with
all its institutions, including the civil service and the judiciary, have been working
assiduously to overturn the referendum result and keep Great Britain locked
inside the EU.
Parliamentarians and the ruling elite believe that the people
are not qualified to decide their future or how they are governed, they believe that this is their preserve and theirs alone.
In their infinite wisdom they have
decided that the people’s interests are best served by surrendering the
governance of their country to a cabal of unelected foreign bureaucrats in a foreign land.
With their now neutered Parliament reduced to a rubber stamp for
decisions already made by this cabal of unelected, agenda driven, foreign bureaucrats the British people are learning the hard way what
the people of East Germany and the other European Soviet puppet states endured,
and they are not laughing any more.
