Will of people can’t be denied
WHAT we have seen over the past three years in the UK and US is the establishment’s revolt against democracy. The born-to-rule elite, the swamp or whatever you want to call them, has worked tirelessly to subvert democracy and deny the will of the people.
Their desperate efforts to cling to power have been aided by large sections of the media and seen the propagation of hysteria, conspiracy theories and news reporting that has abandoned any semblance of impartiality.
Democracy only functions with the losers’ consent. But what we are seeing now are “democracy deniers” who portray results that go against them as illegitimate, blaming everything from a Russian collusion hoax to a misleading ad on the side of a bus. Brexit wasn’t meant to happen. Neither was Donald Trump. Both results represent the rejection of the status quo and were in many ways a triumph for the forgotten people.
Britons were warned of catastrophe if they voted to leave the European Union. The bulk of politicians, business leaders, academics and media were vehemently against leaving. They still are and their efforts to ignore the will of the people are shameful. It’s been galling watching folk who have done everything to stop Brexit being implemented crying about “coups” and “democracy” when they as a group have worked against the wishes of the majority in the biggest democratic vote in British history.
Britons voted to leave the European Union. It wasn’t a vote that was conditional on a deal that is palatable to the EU. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to deliver where his Tory predecessors have failed and he has been willing to purge his party of Remainers who have undermined Brexit every step of the way. Last week 21 Tory MPs who voted to block a nodeal Brexit were sacked.
In the end, Johnson may have to enter into an arrangement with Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party won the recent EU elections only six weeks after being formed, to ensure that Brexit happens and happens on Britain’s terms. Farage, who was instrumental in bringing about the referendum and has arguably had more impact than any UK politician since Margaret Thatcher, has spoken of the “radicalisation” of some Remainers: “For a civilised democracy to work you need the losers’ consent; politicians not accepting the referendum result have led us to this.” He praised Johnson for his decisive action in dumping the recalcitrant MPs.
“These self-serving men and women — many of them not proper Conservatives anyway — all received fair warning that their arrogance and disloyalty would have consequences. When you commit an act of political sabotage, you earn your punishment,” Farage wrote.
A poll released earlier this week by ComRes shows that only one in four Brits is against Brexit being implemented, with 52 per cent in favour and 21 per cent who don’t know. Other polls show the majority want a snap general election if Brexit is not resolved by the new October 31 deadline — an election the Remainers oppose because they know they will lose.
There are many parallels between Remainers in Britain and the Resistance in the US which refuses to accept that Trump is their rightfully elected president. Like Brexit, Trump was seen as an outsider with no hope of winning. Trump was outspent, dramatically, by Hillary Clinton and subjected to the most brutal media treatment of any mainstream politician. A poll three days before the election declared that Clinton had a “99 per cent chance of winning”. And, like Brexit, a Trump victory was meant to lead to economic armageddon and widespread unrest.
Trump, Brexit and the Morrison Government’s 2019 election triumph are humiliating not only for pollsters but also political pundits.
They also show that the electorate will not be swayed by scaremongering and sneers.
2016 will go down as one of the most significant years in modern political history and it’s clear the losers still can’t work out why they lost, let alone accept the result. Instead they pretend the result is invalid and heap abuse on Brexit and Trump voters, smearing them as angry, racist and/or unthinking simpletons tricked into voting a certain way.
Elections have consequences. For a democratic system to function effectively the losers must accept the result of democratically held elections.
TRUMP, BREXIT AND THE MORRISON GOVERNMENT’S 2019 ELECTION TRIUMPH ARE HUMILIATING NOT ONLY FOR POLLSTERS BUT ALSO POLITICAL PUNDITS