Bring It All Down

Artrockers,

The establishment just don’t get it, they seem to think that holding a few inquiries, arresting a few errant reporters and hanging Cameron out to dry will solve the whole damn thing – they couldn’t be more wrong. As with the expenses scandal they seem to think that picking out a few naughty chaps and sending them to the wall will satisfy the electorate, and they can all go back to ignoring us and feathering their nests. But we aren’t that stupid. What the present scandal exposes is how little the establishment care about the opinions, lives and struggles of the majority in contrast to how much they care about keeping on the right side of the press, snuggling up to the super-rich and living in The Cotswolds. Put simply, the electorate are the last to be considered – and now we know it.

I’ve complained before about the big lie of ‘democracy’ in this country, we actually live under (and I use the word advisedly) the boot of ‘representative democracy’, the reality of which is; we vote every five years for the issues that matter most to us, which gives the politicians five years in which to do exactly what THEY want, with no reference to our opinions and with scant regard to ‘promises’ made. How is this democracy? How is this government by the people? Of course it isn’t anything of the sort, it’s an old fashioned stitch up, the establishment sold us a pup many years ago, dangling democracy over us like a fish above a hungry seal, whipping it away every time we get near to biting it. And we know it. So we like to see them squirm a bit, but the end result is always more of the same. It can’t go on.

And while we concentrate on the hacking business what is becoming more and more apparent is that virtually every institution in this country is corrupt, rotten and not fit for purpose; police ( no surprise there), politicians (even less surprise), big business, charities, the church, social services, local government... the decaying pillars of our establishment have propped up a section of society that believes itself above the mores of conventional society, well above the crowd, and has defined its positions in conversation with itself around the dinner tables of Chipping Norton (bomb it now) and in endless private meetings with the press. When was the last time you had a meeting with The Prime Minister? When was the last time he sought your opinion? (I’ll answer that one for you, at the last election, and he won’t want to hear from you ‘til the next one thank you very much, he has millionaire’s – who’s opinions matter more than yours - dinner parties to attend after all, as does Miliband I should add in the interest of balance, they’re all as bad as each other, all liars).

It all has to come down, in the name of democracy. Tinkering won’t solve it, in fact it will only exacerbate the situation. We have to take a look at what we have, keep what works (nothing that I can see) and start again. We aren’t suffering from a ‘democratic deficit’, we have no democracy in which to be deficient, it’s a big lie, we are the pawns of ambitious people who think nothing of sacrificing us in search of the king, who make decisions about our every day existence without any reference to us, the dumb, unwashed idiots who bail out banks and the Eurozone directly from our pockets while struggling to keep body and soul together.
We really are a bunch of suckers, and they know that, it feeds them.

Bring it all down.