Tammany Hall versus the New Politick

A week is a long time in politics. So were the five days it took to conclude the consitutional snooker that was delivered by we, the people. As a qualified political scientist with a Joint Honours degree in History and Politics, and having read all the political philosophers of all persuations from Marx, Engles, (communist), Hume, Locke, (Liberal), Adam Smith, Edmund Burke (Conservative) and Gramsci, Fabian (Socialism) the only extremmists of these groups that put power before the elected wishes of the people were Stalin, Hitler and Musolini. How was it them that the concept of majority power in the parliament took precedence over the elected wishes of the people in the form of the elected parties Prime Minister?? Such an idea that parliaments majority was more important, was against the spirit of the election which sought parliamentary reform in the first place. So too must we compare the idea of usurping the elected majority for the right of parliament to govern without a clear majority as a tactic that is only seen in previous forms of Despotic Orientalism. It is not something that is part of Western Democratic practice. So how did this idea creep in with hither too democratically elected MP's.

Imagine the bloggists nightmare to meet the very person one had blogged against which I did on a plane to France when Peter Mandelson on his last day sat down beside me last week. I muttered a kind of apology but he had not read the blog. He sought solace in his radio earphone for he did not want to talk. I managed to extract some sort of broken conversation which was to his credit showing himself the gentleman he is in fact. However on discussing the issue at hand, Gordon Brown's resignation he said he felt it was inevitable. Thank goodness truly for that because how were we all to try to cement a coalition with a party that had no mandate to rule with a Prime Minister who had not politcal right to remain in power??
Perhaps the Rainbow was the idea of a utopian beleiver who thought that the requesting party of this was whiter than white and had no motive other than to force another election or promote parliamentary reform. Was it as simple as that? With no mandate to rule the request remained anti-democratic and assumed there would be no corruptive forces in the coalition of the rainbow whose ideologies were so divergent they may not agree on anything? After all what is an ideology? It is a wooden non-human idol that sits above us all, to be worshipped above the people, and most usually in the domain of totaliatianism. Would we not then have had a parliament of the Tammany Hall squabbles or a blood bath of Post Colonial New York?

How clever was it then that no matter what, the People themselves decided that they wanted a Coalition. A new politick which forced a new way of working that put political Unity first before partisan politics? Where the Lib Dem was stuck in a decision that was ultimately taken away from him by an Older and Wiser man, Gordon Brown, who might have read of the dangers of putting ideology first in the way that Stalin did???

What are we left with - a way of working together to solve the biggest problem of all - the decline and fall of capitalism itself which may in fact not require the old ideologies to prevent its collapse. Its decline in itself will create the need for a new political premise based on the unity of politics or rather the abandonment of it to form new princincples of co-operation, racial unity, social harmony and religious tolerance that we all crave what ever our persuasion? To put the people first before a wronged and failing political elite, whose reign above the people can't not follow for they must be servants of the people first?

If we forget all this, then our wars against Oriental Despotism are of no account. Let it be therefore that we join in a new politics of Unity that works to solve the people's ills, heals their sicknesses and put them to work for the goodness of their own and all, rather than for a partisan political elite that works for itself.

One small phrase for a little known Religion seems apt 'The Earth is but One Country and Mankind its Citizens' - Baha'i Faith

Lastly, the plane on which I met Peter Mandelson was headed for Nice via Zurich, Switzerland where Peter got off. 'Might you have a Swiss bank account, Peter?'

Brighter Skies and Better Tomorrows.