Democracy?

I have had a bad night's sleep due to fears and ideas swirling around my head and my blogging today will be very, very light as I have a tough work day.

The idea that we live in a democracy is one that is quite hard to give up as without it, what is the point of campaigning, writing and arguing. However it has been long apparent that their are forces within this country, and without, that demand victory and power and only believe in democracy if the vote goes their way. In the UK the Labour party and its supporters took power in 1997 and all opponents were expected to just 'suck it up' and accept the will of the people. The BBC and much else of the media and population were taken in by the smarm of Blair and cowed by the veiled (or otherwise) threats of Campbell and Mandelson. Of course in the case of the BBC a Labour government was greeted by the opening of champagne bottles on election night as their hard work destroying the Conservative government had finally paid off. 12 years on and this Labour government have proved even more incompetent and destructive as any previous Labour government and the UK is in real trouble. However the BBC, as shown by Andrew Marr's contrasting interviews with Gordon Brown and David Cameron, have no doubts that the continuation of Labour government of the UK is their aim. Within the UK the army of state employees has been carefully increased by Gordon Brown, with our money. An army expected to vote Labour and ally itself with those on state benefits to ensure permanent Labour governments. The carefully set-up Quangocracy will ensure that if by any fluke a Conservative government is elected, it will have enemies embedded everywhere to slow it down, fight it at every turn and work for the return of a Labour government as soon as possible.

Meanwhile outside of the UK, the EU has concentrated on accruing as much power to itself as possible. The EU Constitution was voted down by countries allowed the vote so its powers were re-written as amendments to the existing treaties in attempt to avoid any referenda. Ireland's courts saw through this and demanded a referendum, which the NO vote won but this was not satisfactory and the EU made some dubious concessions made them vote again and won a scared YES from the Irish. It is obvious to all that the UK population would vote no if asked to support the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum so we will not be asked for our approval. The Czechs will be bullied over and over again to ratify the Treaty before there is any chance of a Conservative election victory. Once ratified whoever wins elections in the UK will be of little importance as power will be centralised in Brussels like never before. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that the return of Peter Mandelson was brought back into the Uk government to shore up Gordon Brown for just long enough for the Irish and Czechs to ratify the Lisbon Treaty.

So do we really live in a country where however we feel, however we vote; nothing changes? I fear that this might indeed be the case.Even if David Cameron's Conservatives manage to overcome the BBC's bile and win the coming general election, it is easily possible that they will find they have to answer to Tony Blair as unelected President of the EU and Gordon Brown as (unelected) head of the new more powerful G20.

Maybe Gordon Brown's prattling about a New World Order was more than just rhetoric. Maybe it is our future to live in a world where undemocratic supranational bodies have more power than elected governments.