Britain's elections

The Sun today attacks Blair's plans to bring the EU constitution provisions into force by stealth, link here. Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph spells out what many of us have known for years about Blair, Brown and New Labour, link here. BUT the good news is in the Guardian which notes in the latest opinion poll the British public have begun to notice and are putting the blame where it belongs on the two main political parties and the thoroughly non-democratic party rule they have fostered. The report is linked here and the following is a quote: Both Britain's big political parties are under heavy pressure ahead of next week's elections across England, Wales and Scotland, a Guardian/ICM poll published today shows.

One in three voters have turned their backs on Labour and the Conservatives and now back the Lib Dems or a smaller party such as the Greens or the SNP. Support for Labour is down one point on last month, at 30%. The Conservatives have dropped four points to 37%.

BUT those levels of support are still way, way too high. The only way to shake the non-democrats who exert power through their control of party power levers (Cameron's Conservatives are this week removing members' controls over MEP selection) is to hit them hard in the elections on 3rd May. Local issues and dedicated councillors might seem good enough reasons to vote for the status quo or a decent candidate running under a labour or conservative banner - they are not. If a candidate is in one of the two main parties he is by definition part of a disgraced and corrupted system - there can be no circumstances whatsoever where he thus deserves your vote. The party system will not be reformed as long as it brings power - only the electorate can now remove that power, this year the only opportunity seems to be on 3rd May. There are plenty of smaller parties and independents standing - please do not vote labour or conservative.