Wouldn't it be time to disband the monarchy's grip over the country? The medieval House of Lords? To have real democratic voting and not the simple majority system which will never change anything?
I wouldn't say the monarchy has much grip over the country, their role within parliamentary proceedings is largely procedural without real influence. There are reforms being proposed for the House of Lords to bring in more elected members rather than just handing titles down through families so that aspect is changing.
My diary wasn't about the way in which the UK runs it democratic processes or how elections are run (that's a whole other diary topic in itself) but about the tactics of the BNP in recruiting to it's youth wing and the implicatiosn this has for our society. Ad astra per aspera
As for the House of Lords, I remember times when they were providing the only effective resistance to some of Thatcherisms excesses. I agree its an old system, but would a fully elected chamber necessarily be any better?
as for the idea that simple majority voting will never change anything, it's changed things before, it all depends on the qualities of the candidates and memebers raised by the individual parties.
the idea that its all still 1890, thats not true, it's more stuck in an idea of the 1930's, but only an upper middle class vision of what the 1930's were actually like, not the experience of the actual 1930's for the majority. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
