Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Democracy my arse!

Once again John "Crazy Frog" Prescott has confused democracy with despotism and it's all about regional assemblies ... again.

The imposition of regional assemblies (RA's) was the ultimate display of despotism when they were introduced before the referrenda had been held to find out if people actually wanted them. The north east voted against them, the planned nationwide referrenda were abandoned in a fit of blind panic but the RA's were left in place to continue their unwanted, undemocratic, illegitimate "work".

Now Prescott has decided that councils need to be forced to release more land for housing developments. The reason the tub of lard believes that his proposals are needed is because the regional assemblies for the South East and the Eastern region keep voting down the number of houses his department says are needed.

Regional Assemblies are, of course, part of the government's plans to bring democracy closer to the people. What better way to demonstrate their commitment to democracy than to allow Prezza to over-rule the an RA when it doesn't do his bidding?

Democracy my arse!

More reading:
Neil Herron
Campaign for an English Parliament (includes funny impression of the grease monkey himself)