New Post - Day One of Write-Place - 2008

 Woke up today feeling the need to vent about many things but also not wanting to get into too negative a mood. So here we have the very first post of this blog way back in 2008, to refresh on what was happening in the world, from my point of view at least and the responses it received.

Write-Place- March 05, 2008

Hello to whoever is reading this and congratulations - you are the first (or one of the first) to read the initial posting on this blog.
I have said that I intend to discuss all sorts of things here and will do so in the next post - just wanted to say welcome and thanks for coming.

Please leave a post and let's get talking.

Can I suggest a topic for your first subject matter?
REFERENDUM:
1) Should we have a referendum on the Euro?
2) Is there a valid case for Britain to withdraw from the European Union altogether?
It would be good to hear everyone's opinion on this. This topic usually manages to rouse strongly held beliefs from all sides of the political spectrum.

Hello, I would love to leave a comment but the subject is a little too heavy for me!

Unknown said…Yes I agree with all that.

Lexia257 said…

Thanks for your comments and your responses. I have to admit that I am not too well versed in this area either, but as I have said I will discuss anything, I will do my best from my limited knowledge.

This Government seems to carry on regardless having very little care for the feelings of its electorate, which makes too many people feel that whatever their views, it’s not worth the effort to voice them. Gordon Brown promised a Referendum to the British people, and appears to have gone back on that promise even though 88% of the electorate want a Referendum. I am never sure about the legitimacy of statistics, but have taken this from The Times – so if it’s not correct blame them.

Trust between the electorate and our so-called representatives in Parliament is very low and maybe politicians should learn that while the people don’t have a say in the future of their country's relationship with the EU, they will view the whole scenario with suspicion.

If this Lisbon Treaty is such a good thing and necessary for the UK, Gordon Brown should have been able to make the case for it. But it isn't necessary and it isn't good - so he cowed out and cancelled a Referendum he thought he couldn't win.
Our politicians think that they are our rulers rather than our representatives, even those who haven’t actually been voted in yet, namely the Prime Minister. This country is being “led” by an undemocratic dictator who does not care about Britain or the constitutional rights of its citizens.

Therefore :
1) there should be a referendum on the Euro – but I am not sure that there will be, and
2) based on the undemocratic “democracy” that is this government, there is a real valid case for Britain to withdraw from the European Union, but I am very sure that this will not happen either.

Excellent points you make there, Lexia! I agree with you 100%.

Gordon Brown is keen to engage people in the democratic process, just so long as it is his kind of democracy (ie. the electorate is obliged to give him the answer he is looking for- otherwise Brown is not interested in the electorate and to hell with democracy).Isn't it interesting that Gordon Brown will not give the British people the vote his party promised the electorate in 1997, yet all the while he is happy to throw his weight behind other popular but less important campaigns (ie. the attempts to ban bottled water and the bid to eradicate plastic bags from the supermarket checkouts)? Such campaigning can only be viewed as Gordon Brown craving cheap publicity for populist support whilst all the while patronising the electorate. Does Gordon Brown feel we cannot be trusted with deciding our nation's future? Do we not have the right to vote on whether or not we want this Lisbon treaty? Wasn't the Labour party elected to Government on the mandate of giving us a referendum? Am I the only one who is sick to death of this kind of gesture politics? Also, is anyone else reading this who is disgusted that the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg ordered his party's MPs not to vote on the referendum debate on Wednesday?

I would implore anyone else who feels the same way to please remember to hurt these self-serving bureaucrats at the next election. If we the electorate introduced these idiots to Government then we can sure as hell remove them from power the very next time we get a chance to do so.

Well, I'm impressed with the comments from others and also from myself but would have to research again the politics of the period to understand the detail of what I and others said. Safe to say there doesn't seem to be much difference in my feelings and belief in those in government then and now. 

Perhaps anyone reading this today might like to comment on their views and discuss what, if anything has changed for the better of the 'ordinary person' in the  UK electorate, after 17 years. Of course we now have X, Tic Tock,  Substacks and many other medium to express our thoughts worldwide instantly, which has a major impact on politics and our lives.