Lindsay Hoyle has a short memory if he can’t remember Jo Cox.
I appreciate that threatening MPs is awful, and counter to democracy, but a good deal of these MPs are talking about marginalised people’s lives as if they don’t matter. People are understandably angry.
Listed under the reported ‘abuse’ in this article is ‘MPs being filmed and followed’. MPs have absolutely no right not to be filmed in public, when campaigning especially – and what does ‘followed’ mean? We’ve all seen videos of MPs ignoring people trying to ask them questions, walking down the street after them to do so.
I have no doubt that John Woodcock (or ‘Lord Walney’ as the backwards system would have us call him) is looking to conflate the legitimate holding to account of politicians with abuse
This is a symptom of the dissatisfaction with democracy we have in this country ; Over 50% of people say they are dissatisfied and it’s been this way for a while.
We have a political class that simply does not care about democracy.
Pretty much all policy is made behind closed doors with lobbyists and ‘political advisors’ who have never even worked a normal job. There is no democratic way to get a party to take a policy to election for the two main parties- Starmer has specifically personally went against things voted at labour conference, the SNP have done much the same.
Our voting system is completely anti democratic and delivers absolute power with typically 30-40% of the vote.
All of this to protect the economic orthodoxy we’ve had for the last 40 years where the private sector is encouraged to do everything without any democratic input. No matter who you vote for your community’s wealth is funneled out by mega corporations and chains while your public services are decimated by the neoliberals in government. The power lies with those who control investment and distribution.
The government has completely absolved itself of trying to represent the majority opinions in the country. Whatever you think of the Gaza situation the government was certainly not representing the majority of public opinion at any time on the issue while they fought the international criminal court.
Starmer doesn’t care about these things either so it’s gonna get worse. Just look at how he treats his own party’s democracy and imposes candidates from the labour executive committee into safe seats even when they are awful antisemites like Luke Akehurst.
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Lindsay Hoyle has a short memory if he can’t remember Jo Cox.
I appreciate that threatening MPs is awful, and counter to democracy, but a good deal of these MPs are talking about marginalised people’s lives as if they don’t matter. People are understandably angry.
Listed under the reported ‘abuse’ in this article is ‘MPs being filmed and followed’. MPs have absolutely no right not to be filmed in public, when campaigning especially – and what does ‘followed’ mean? We’ve all seen videos of MPs ignoring people trying to ask them questions, walking down the street after them to do so.
I have no doubt that John Woodcock (or ‘Lord Walney’ as the backwards system would have us call him) is looking to conflate the legitimate holding to account of politicians with abuse
This is a symptom of the dissatisfaction with democracy we have in this country ; Over 50% of people say they are dissatisfied and it’s been this way for a while.
We have a political class that simply does not care about democracy.
Pretty much all policy is made behind closed doors with lobbyists and ‘political advisors’ who have never even worked a normal job. There is no democratic way to get a party to take a policy to election for the two main parties- Starmer has specifically personally went against things voted at labour conference, the SNP have done much the same.
Our voting system is completely anti democratic and delivers absolute power with typically 30-40% of the vote.
All of this to protect the economic orthodoxy we’ve had for the last 40 years where the private sector is encouraged to do everything without any democratic input. No matter who you vote for your community’s wealth is funneled out by mega corporations and chains while your public services are decimated by the neoliberals in government. The power lies with those who control investment and distribution.
The government has completely absolved itself of trying to represent the majority opinions in the country. Whatever you think of the Gaza situation the government was certainly not representing the majority of public opinion at any time on the issue while they fought the international criminal court.
Starmer doesn’t care about these things either so it’s gonna get worse. Just look at how he treats his own party’s democracy and imposes candidates from the labour executive committee into safe seats even when they are awful antisemites like Luke Akehurst.