Bob FM: With respect, you do not understand the purpose of UKIP and its objectives. Democracy, like Heinz Soup, come in 57 Varieties. Our variety happens to be a, Representative Parliamentary Democracy, (RPD). Not as an opinion, but as a fact, legislation has to be lawful, but it does not have to be, 'professionally-approved' or, necessarily popular. Indeed proposals to abandon the Julian Calendar for the Gregorian one, resulted in street riots
(1752); the same happened when Robert Peel, established the Metropolitan Police Force (1829). To the list we can add riots to prevent thousands of tenements being demolished, without regard for the tenant interests, to establish the world's first railway system. The ending of public executions was bitterly opposed as a retrograde step: 'Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done'. Compulsory education, (Forster Act 1870), was to cause much economic hardship among the poor, understandably, unpopular where a child's earnings were vital for family survival. Secret Ballot (1872), was seen as the necessary evidence, that democracy was being blatently perverted. Nothing incredible about what I say; UKIP supports democracy, but RPD which, for all its faults, has served us well.
The agenda of 'Populist Democracy', which you implicitly support- delegates not representatives- has never been part of our Constitution. You are just making it up, as you go along. Vested interests have always existed, but our Constitution was able to exist, influence and modify excesses within a constitutional framework, both in peace and war. None of this is to your likeing, I presume?
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