Gordon Brown by Richard Littlejohn

From Richard Littlejohn's Daily Mail column today comes a piece entitled "Democracy - ring any bells, Gordon?" including these extracts

"Look at how the Americans go about electing their President alongside the grubby stitch-up which put Gordon Brown into Downing Street.

Here, there was no "campaign", just a few stage-managed boasting sessions to an audience of handpicked sycophants.

He faced no opposition because he put the frighteners on anyone daft enough to stand against him.

Our Prime Minister has never been elected by his own party, by parliament or by the British people.

He represents a Scottish seat in an overwhelmingly English parliament and passes laws affecting the English which do not affect his own constituents north of the Border.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have their own versions of self-government, something which Brown stubbornly denies the English.

He signed away Britain's sovereignty to Europe, blatantly breaking a promise to hold a referendum he knew he'd lose, and lied through his newly-capped teeth about the consequences of his actions. He didn't even have the guts to attend the formal signing ceremony.

Even when he had the opportunity to secure a democratic mandate, he chickened out because he didn't trust the people to give the right answer. He was frightened he might lose the job he has always considered to be his birthright.

If Brown could find a way of abolishing elections altogether, believe me he would.

Lord Hailsham once described Britain as an elective dictatorship. Under Brown it's not even elective.

Britain is now governed by a series of placemen, quangos, bureaucracies and unaccountable officials who pay little heed to the will of the people. Most of our laws are made in Brussels by people we didn't elect and can't eject.

We don't have plebiscites, we have spurious 'consultations' which are then ignored....

In Britain we are subjected to the obscenity of a full-time politician masquerading as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police taunting the elected members of the London Assembly to sack him if they think they've got the power - secure in the knowledge that they damn well haven't....

The House of Commons is routinely by-passed. The Lords is packed with pliant cronies and party donors, while Tory peers are booted out.

They've tinkered with our tried and tested first-past-the-post system through scams such as corrupt party lists to ensure their hegemony.

They'll hold a referendum on something relatively meaningless, such as should a man in a monkey suit become the mayor of Hartlepool, but ruthlessly refuse a vote on our future as a self-governing nation....

Someone like Gordon Brown would never get to be President of the United States. By the time the Iowa caucus had been convened they'd have spotted him as a shifty sociopath with festering contempt for democracy and decency and consigned him to the garbage can - which unlike Britain, gets emptied twice a week, not once a fortnight."


I can add nothing to this, so I won't.