Emancipation
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
The mathematics of tyranny
Political parties who gain control of governance in Britain do not have the support of the majority of the electorate and yet Parliamentary voting balance is so biased as to provide the minority faction controlling government an absolute voting majority in Parliament. Our governments have no majority support but have an over-riding power to impose their own dogmas on the majority.
The mathematics of British governance is one which gives rise to a tyranny which ceaselessly constrains the freedom of the people of Britain.
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Of the 646 seats in the House of Commons the Labour Party which has the support of just 19% of the electorate has 352 or 54% of the seats providing it with an absolute majority of votes equivalent to 67 seats. The Conservatives with almost the same share of electorate support has just 30% of the seats leaving it 159 seats short of Labour.
This is not an argument of how the system is unfair to the Conservative party since when the issue of vote share came up when the Conservatives were running government they were dismissive of the fact that they did not have the support of the majority and simply asserted that an unrepresentative but absolute majority was necessary to be able to take decisions.
The fact that decisions could be taken in the exclusive interests of the minority faction controlling government at the expense of the majority was and is never of concern to any British political party. Their fixation on party power at the expense of the shaping of policies to meet the preferences of all underwrites the shallow nature of democracy in Britain where participation in decision-making by the people remains a theoretical concept.
Political parties, far from being a bulwark of democracy have become a barrier to transparent representation of the people. The intellectual shackling of MPs to the party dogma, the pretence that Parliamentary debate is anything more than posturing and the dishonesty of MPs pretending to represent constituents but who in fact follow the dictates of the party whips are evidence enough that the game is not representation of the people.
The game is representation of the party and in order to secure power and manipulate events to the benefit of the party these tiny unrepresentative but powerful organizations survive on the basis of the application of the mathematics of tyranny. In the meantime the freedom of expression of the people of Britain remains everely diminished at the expense of such partizan behaviour.
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