Q.        ‘What do you mean, “the party system” is a confidence trick’?
 

A.        Generally speaking one would describe the basis of liberty as having the freedom to choose, but it is important to support this idea with the ability to accept or reject one course of action or policy at a time. Party politicians on the other hand, are often to be heard gushing the words “in this free and democratic land of ours” as if “freedom and democracy” are inseparable bedfellows, but you should remember that at “democratic” election - time the party system offers you only a “package” of policies. Each party has a package of policies and the ONLY choice you are given is between one or other of these “packages”. Therein is the lie that you live in a free country, because it is clear that you probably cannot opt out of a particular government policy with which you disagree, because, for example, the consolidated tax system forces you to pay for programmes to which you thoroughly object. (e.g. war on Iraq). This is the financial basis of government power over you, whereas the other power is political in that a “majority government” can pass a law which infringes your liberty. The trick is to keep you in ignorance of the situation and its alternative.

Q.        Who chooses what goes in the packages?
 

A.         What they call the caucus of the party – the central committee (a term not unknown to communist regimes!)

Q.        How does the voter know which to choose?
 

A.        You will possibly notice that there is a policy you DO   desperately want and one that you DEFINITELY DON’T want. Say “Conservative ideas on immigration” are ok but then find that like Labour they too want ID cards and you are dead against that. So, you go to Lib Dems. You find they don’t want… but they DO believe in “being at the heart of Europe” and are pro EU. But you are disgusted with the corruption in the EU. So you don’t want that either. Now, say you are traditional Labour but so disgusted with Blair over Iraq, never again… so where do you go? In the end you go around in circles and give up! So they have got you anyway, unless you spot the game and know the antidote.

Q.        Can you prove that the whole system is a stitch up, as suggested by Chesterton on the website Home Page?
 

By this I mean: can you prove that the same small clique is running the whole show from behind the scenes, and that they cleverly divide up the policies (divide and rule) between the parties so that most unsuspecting party politicians have no idea that this is being done, any more than the unsuspecting voter. Can you prove that there are links between each party caucus and their backers, or if the backers appear to be different are they actually linked behind the scenes?

A.        Well, we dug into our files and found these: “The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of his backer; or what is most important of all, the BANKER of the backer.” GK Chesterton. Meanwhile you don’t have to be a super-genius to see that a certain “irreversible” direction of national policy is taking place: i.e. towards a centralised world government and away from the nation state and that the main political parties are taking it in turns. We know that the nation state is being undermined in various ways. We can certainly prove that that is the intention also by the following quote to hand: “We are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy…..The fifty or sixty local states of the world will no doubt survive as administrative conveniences, but sooner or later sovereignty will depart from them. Sovereignty will cease, in fact, if not in name, to be a local affair.” Professor Arnold Toynbee. 4th Annual Conference of Institutions for the Scientific Study of International Relations. Copenhagen 8th-10th June 1931.

 

A.        We all know what dictatorship means, but our sort arrives by being “elected” into existence after each election whereby one political party has sufficient majority to govern as it likes for up to 5 years. The theory is that thereafter we can remove it and replace it with another and undo any damage.