Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Blair's inner circle and its ferocious grab for power

Zak Walpole | 07.04.2006 14:34 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy...

Jenni Russell's excellent article can be read below via the link at the foot of the page:

To be perfectly honest, what I find most shameful and deplorable about the Nazi-style erosion of parliamentary democracy that this Guardian commentator - and countless others in the wider world have described and continue to report on, is the position of the Queen in all of this. I mean what exactly are we paying this woman and her enormous extended family for? I wish she would get off her backside and do something. Her behaviour and lack of action in all of this is appalling. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns! This sorry state of affairs and the passive inaction and toothless behaviour of the Crown executive really makes my blood boil.

The situation that the valiant and patriotic Ms Russell describes, serves to reinforce my growing concerns and lingering doubts, and undermine any remaining confidence I had, not just in the purpose and efficacy of our increasingly discredited, dictatorial and decaying parliamentary democracy, but in my national faith in the very foundation stones of our constitutional monarchy itself. Day by day, sections of society on socialism’s far left who have - like voices crying in the wilderness - long argued that a revolutionary agenda is the only true path to REAL democracy are increasingly being proved right - and at an alarmingly fast and frightening rate at that. I like the prospect of potentially violent revolutions being played out on our shores (didn‘t we have enough of that when the last Charlie approached the throne, 300 years ago!?), even less than the idea of a sham-socialist Prime Ministerial Dictatorship, masquerading as Parliament. With the greatest respect ma’am, can we perhaps have less hunting, fishing and shooting parties, less sojourns abroad and more strokes of the pen. And more of some of your finer ancestors warrior spirit. Starting with:

1) the immediate removal from power of this alleged Prime Minister
2) an assiduous top-level crown inquiry into Blair and the alleged war crimes of both him and several other cabinet ministers
3) a careful evaluation and removal from the statute book of all undemocratic laws passed under the current administrations stewardship
4) an internationally scrutinised and independently administered General Election


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1747771,00.html

Zak Walpole
- Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/thomasgrahamsbt9

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech