Thanks to you, some terrific things are taking place. By the simple act of your discussing carefully and seriously your membership of the Westminster system you have done more than show up its all too familiar decay. It is not news that its resonant tones of self-importance sound profound only because they reverberate in the echo chamber of their own hollowness (Boris Johnson’s blather in today’s Telegraph is a perfect example). What is unprecedented is the contrast between Westminster’s bombast and your local meetings and debates. These are telling all of us that we don’t have to be resigned to its empty fulminations and it really is possible to escape the old regime - whose representatives and pollsters have been telling us for years that lack of participation, falling turnout, abstention and loss of trust are a ‘growing problem’. Here you are heading for an eighty per cent turnout after massive participation and engagement on both sides of the argument, and oh my God, panic stations! It was not meant to be like this. For Westminster’s leaders your chance of participation was to doff your cap, tidy your kilt and kiss their arse.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:24:46 +0000
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