Elective Dictatorship

Blair has gone on record as saying that, if people are still angry about Iraq (or any other issue, really) their opportunity to register their grievance is at the next general election. He is seeking the outlawing of protest in the area surrounding the Houses of Parliament, continues to treat impeachment as a joke, and refuses to release the full legal advice concerning a war already fought for public scrutiny, despite the fact that it clearly carries no risk to civil security, and only serves to protect "his" government. The fact that neither he, nor his ministers, are to be held accountable for their mistakes and misdemeanours means Blair clearly believes in democracy only as far as an elective dictatorship - that he must whore himself to the electorate every four years, and in the meantime do pretty much whatever he wants to.

I sincerely hope that people will take him up on his offer, but when he's up against Howard (evil) and Kennedy (invisible) a vote against becomes more difficult. And ousting Blair from within the Labour party is going to be even more difficult than ousting Thatcher from the Conservative party.

I c0uld springboard into an attack on the undemocractic nature of party politics, but I think we can take it as read. I'm conceiving a letter to my MP regarding her voting behaviour, how she balances her local duties with her ministerial duties, and most of all her opinions on the whip system and whether she feels a reform is in order.