BRING BACK HANGING (PARLIAMENTS)

COMPULSORY FLUORIDE IS TYPICAL OF GOVERNMENTS WITH TOO MUCH POWER

As the General Election draws closer one cannot help but wonder how this is likely to affect the fluoridation issue. Although hurried through parliament, the legislation to speed up fluoridation does not at this stage appear any closer and the legal challenges from Hampshire Against Fluoride is only delaying it further. Even if Labour gets in again with a working majority, the main demands on the NHS and the growing debt mountain in the UK are going to make it increasingly difficult to promote or install the infrastructure required for implementation.

If the Tories get in i think fluoridation would be even less likely, they are always much more ready to cut expenditure and costs whether its needed or not and the last thing they will want is to get of to a bad start involving arguments about fluoride and its costs which of course include legal costs. There is also much debate and concern about the possibility of a "Hung Parliament" which occurs when neither of the main parties is elected with a large majority.

I for one believe that a Hung Parliament is exactly what the doctor ordered for our stuttering democracy. The two main parties are terrified of such an occurrence and cite many reasons why its such a bad thing. they say for instance that it allows minority parties to hold the country to ransom and exert power above and beyond their real influence. But surely in a real democracy smaller parties and independents is exactly what the doctor ordered.

A wider range of issues gets represented and there is a much better quality of debate when no party has such a huge majority that it can force outrageous laws onto the books. Look for example at the dreadful damage done to the industry in this country by combination of Reagonomics and Thatcherism. Thatcher was able to say the most ludicrous things and be taken seriously whilst paving the way for the excesses of the Neocons. Who can forget such environmentally absurd statements as "the great car economy" or "there's no such thing as society" and dreadfully unsustainable policies as the "dash for gas". This latter assisted by the forcible closure of the coal mines ensured that our north sea gas and oil reserves would be used up in record time. Now we have to depend on that nice Mr Putin for our future gas and energy supplies.

Thatcher also brought us the City of Londons "big Bang" in 1986. This essentially computerised and automated much of the big money transactions whilst at the same time removing much of the regulation and control, thus enabling the banks to run up huge debts at the expense of the depositor and the tax payer whilst a few big banks could live off funny money and grotesque bonus schemes.

This get rich quick, loads-a-money economy has given rise to an ongoing dumbing down of the last two generations who think of nothing but becoming celebrities of the most trivial kind on a diet of junk fast food, binge drinking, and the most dreadful and formulaic music onc can imagine. Best of all was the Tories privitasation of the water companiess, which placed our most precious resource in the hands of a few multinationals and their shareholders. From film i have seen even the K Factor which allowed the water companies to increase prices by something like 5 percent above inflation seems to have disappeared into the pockets of shareholders whilst the infrastructure continues to rot.

And what of New Labour and its fabulous landslide elections.? I actually raised the question of Landslides and they damage they could cause with Tony Blair on live national radio a couple of days before the election of 2000 AD. It caught him off guard at first but he soon settled into the familiar arguments about minority parties, etc etc. If truth be told however, Labour has been every bit as damaging to our democracy as was its predecessor, although it has taken a different tack.

Once Blair and his ilk realised they could pass new laws easily they quickly acquired the habit of doing so. Change for the sake of change has been the only game in their lexicon and the terrorist outrages on both sides of the big pond have furnished them with all the excuses they ever needed. Now we have bio-passports, retinal scans, compulsory (sooner or later) ID Cards, ASBOs and lots of other increased police powers and CCTV cams beyond counting. Our privacy and our democracy has been severely damaged and the government does not seem minded to give up this masturbatory fantasy of a world power with international domination rights it has contracted from the USA.

Our first past the post system enables a minority of the electorate to elect governments with gigantic majorities which can do anything they damn well like and the opposition is rendered completely impotent. The majority of people genuinely do not feel represented. Fluoridation of drinking water is a major case in point. A very dangerous, untested bi-product of industries such as pesticides, aluminium and even the nuclear weapons industry is not just given to people under some junk science pretext but its actually forced upon them via the drinking water. Its bad enough that clean and potable water is a shrinking resource due to population growth and squandering, we now have governments prepared to make it compulsory to have remaining stocks poisoned along with the wider environment.

The nut cases who promote this filthy crap are not satisfied with this however, they are alaready putting it in the schoolkids milk in parts of Sheffied and Derbyshire and have advised LIDL supermarkets to add it to salt. Clearly they are hell bent on forcing as much of this stuff down our throats with or without our consent or co-operation. If this is not bad enough their are even, as predicted by campaigners, calls for the addition of Statins or Lithium Salts to our drinking water. So we get a few crackpots in our current government who have swallowed all the junk science and even give money to organisations promoting it. Many of these have no relevent medical or scientific skills and certainly no right to prescribe.

A hung parliament would not end all of this of course, but it would at least force a more rigorous and detailed debate and with a bit of luck only measures and laws deemed scientifically credible and just would be passed. Lets put an end to vote catching scams and yielding to the interests of corporations and concentrate on genuine health care and diets and the first step towards this will be to cut down on fat landslides, and make our system more fair and proportional. The fact that the money markets are worried by the prospect of a hung parliament only gives me more confidence that this is the correct way to proceed. I have seen over the last thirty years, Landslide governts of both the right and the left but these labels no long fit, they are both the same and cannot be trusted with unlimited power. So, Lets not give these power hungry and greedy retards the means to compel and bully ordinary people, vote for debate, vote for sensible laws made by sensible governments.... vote for proportional representation, and minorities and independence and remind all those who seek election that they are being elected to serve and definitely not to rule and just like most ordinary folks, there is no job for life with a cherry on the top. They are neither fit nor competent to do so. If they want our respect, they will have to earn it and if they want to medicate us in any way against our wishes via the water and food supplies, just tell them No Thanks.