Forms of Government

DEMOCRACY: The United Kingdom (UK) is a democracy. A democracy is a country where the people choose their government. In the UK there are too many people to ask and too many decisions to take therefore representatives are elected to make decisions.  from http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zwvqtfr/revision

This is the form of government created and developed by the British over eight hundred years since the Magna Carta and used in most of the free countries of the world.

AUTOCRACY: government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
from: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/autocracy

PLUTOCRACY: a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/plutocracy

OLIGARCHY: a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in adominant 
class or clique; government by the few. From: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/oligarchy

This is how Daniel Hannan identified the EU. This form of government is not used anywhere else in the world and is too cumbersome, with no direct lines of responsibility for any action. 

And from Wikipedia:
The EU treaties declare the EU to be based on representative democracy, and direct elections take place to the European Parliament. The Parliament, together with the Council, form the legislative arm of the EU. The Council is composed of national governments, thus representing the intergovernmental nature of the EU. Laws are proposed by the European Commission which is appointed by and accountable to the Parliament and Council although it has very few executive powers.

Note who proposes the laws: An Appointed body, not elected. 


The EU operates through a hybrid system of supranational and intergovernmental decision-making.^[17][18] The seven principal decision-making bodies—known as the institutions of the European Union—are the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, theEuropean Central Bank, and the European Court of Auditors.  from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union.

For me that it too many bodies trying to take over too much. 

In Russia, there is a constitution that protects the rights of the citizen,  and people voted for it, but I cannot find anything that says how democratic Russia is. 

Voting Day- Brexit response to Facebook Post

This morning I was upset to see a proud post from my distant cousin that the labour party had given her to post, saying that she had voted to Remain. I was tempted to respond, but didn't. My response would have been:

1. This shows how the British educational system has gone wrong. These students have no idea of the History that has gone into making Great Britain what it is. It must be socialist teachers (Guardian readers) teaching of how we have benevolent  leaders in Brussels.

2. You believed Cameron's lies?

3. You are happy to be a slave to unelected leaders in a foreign country. This sounds like Totalitarianism.

4. You obviously believe that the graph showing GB's contributions to the EU has peaked, whereas everybody else thinks that the EU will demand more and more until they drive GB into poverty.


Friday after the vote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/the-european-elite-forgot-that-democracy-is-the-one-thing-britai/                        Charles Moore.


I need to keep a link to this. it is a most powerful video about what the EU thinks is the future of England - see about 19 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCBq0gloK-4&feature=share

Brexit for Scientists

According to this report: https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/eu-uk-funding/uk-membership-of-eu.pdf

The UK gives a lot of money to the EU (2007-13) £77.7B, of which £5.4B is allocated to Science Spending.  (6.9% of £77.7B)

The UK receives £8.8B Back from the EU from this science budget. Therefore according to Scientists, we should remain because we are better off. We don't want to lose our science budget.

BUT, this £8.8B is only 3% of the money spent on science in the UK. The rest comes direct from UK sources.

So If we came out - Brexit, and were able to double the amount that Science had had from the EU, say to £18B,  (23% of the 77.7B) The UK would still have ~£60B to spend on other things, like the NHS, any tax barriers to EU trade, or whatever.

Advantages to Remaining in the EU

Well, We could save a lot of money by dispensing with our parliament and just being ruled by nameless unelected bureaucrats from Brussels. This in effect means cancelling Magna Carta. Common law is defunct.

What was spent on parliament can be used to fund the NHS.

Don't worry about Habeas Corpus any more, you can be locked up indefinitely without trial.

Before you do anything, check whether it is legal, because that is different from our current system, where you can do anything unless it is illegal.

Currently for working people our holidays and benefits are better than elsewhere in Europe, maybe we will have to downgrade?