Under the present system of government – first past the post – it is always a choice between two parties. One has to choose the lesser of two evils.
Keir Starmer is not my choice for either leading Labour or being Prime Minister.
But when compared to Boris Johnson the matter is stark
I believed Boris Johnson to be an utterly incompetent lying chancer. He is completely unfit to run a chip shop.
Keir Starmer is a watered down Tory but he is a thousand times better than Johnson.
We need to change the system to one of proportional representation so that we can get some integrity back into the system.
There is something incredibly wrong with a system that puts such a deeply flawed individual like Boris Johnson in charge. It has opened the door to sleaze, corruption and greed.
Opher – I couldn’t agree more!
Following BoJo’s statement in the commons, Clive Lewis MP (Lab) ran a short thread on twitter suggesting the need for democratic renewal in light of Gray’s findings.
‘In a healthy democracy Boris Johnson would by now be a former PM. The fact he’s still in post – having lied to Parliament and the public last year – tells us we have a problem that goes beyond his personal qualities as a political leader, to the heart of our failing democracy.
The power to hold the Prime Minister to account for his actions is now in the hands of the damaged institution of the Metropolitan Police – which has finally and belatedly started investigating – and Tory MPs who have the cover of the 1922 committee.
Herein lies the problem. Without a written constitution and without strong checks and balances on an increasingly powerful government committed to doing away with the weak checks already there, the institutions of our democracy will continue to be fatally undermined.
Right now, the government is using their power to make sure the public has none – whether that is through attacks on our voting system and the independence of the judiciary, or the hollowing
out of the right to protest, the right to vote, citizenship rights, and our human rights.
Boris Johnson should go. But this issue goes far beyond the integrity of the PM or even his government. Until we undergo a programme of democratic renewal, we’ll be stuck with a system that has proven itself unfit for the challenges we face now and in the coming century.’
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That is a good summary of the problem. This government demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the system. They feel so entitled and arrogant that they .really do think they can do anything they want. To hang on to power they are prepared to crush all possibility of opposition. It is a quiet British Trumpism