Democracy? Absolute contempt and stupidity

 

Thousands upon thousands of his compatriots face extreme situations and struggle to survive. He had a very privileged position and treated Parliament with absolute contempt.

You are not paid more than 80,000 Pound a year plus privileges to sit down in the debating chamber of the House of Commons watching pornography.

Let's be reminded that him and many others like him - men and women - are making life or death decisions on behalf of those who put them in the House of Commons.

Nobody expect them to be role-models, but they should aspire to be role-models given the positions that they occupy.

In Britain, there is a growing democratic deficit accompanied by repressive legislation that limits individual freedoms undermining faith in public institutions. Political stability is about trust. This is not happing in one political party. This is happening across political boundaries and it shows how downgraded the political class has become.

What are the criteria for registered political parties in the United Kingdom?

While Britain First has been repeatedly denied electoral registration despite being an active political organisation, having to go to the courts to challenge the Electoral Commission, the Electoral Commission has no qualms in having the British National Party as a registered political party despite repeated irregularities regarding the way those in charge of the British National Party are actually managing the organisation.

The situation has been so serious that auditors have often refused to give their assent when they have audited the accounts of the British National Party. 

Reported irregularites have had to do with the way monies donated presumably to the organisation have ended up being spent. This includes party membership feeds, legacies made to the organisation, management of expenses making monies pocketed by private individuals being registered as expenses for the purpose of tax avoidance.

Individuals linked to the organisation have even accused of signing applications for public grants under false pretenses and of using monies collected by organisation for the organisation to pay for private mortgages. 

Despite repeated attempts to launch an investigation into the ways whatever is left of the British National Party is actually run, years have passed and the organisation is suspected of being used by two private individuals as a cash-cow without any serious political commitment. A website continues to hosted, but of recent those in charge of maintaining the website walked away after they stopped being paid. Despite efforts made by a Labour Party MP to raise the issue with the Electoral Commission and the talk of a Police investigation, nothing was actually done. This raise the issue of the role the Electoral Commission is playing in the whole affair, on the one hand putting obstacles to registration of new political parties and on the other ignoring serious accusations of wrongdoing involving the British National Party. 

Yet again Electoral Fraud in Labour Constituencies

Not long ago, it happened in Tower Hamlets where instances of electoral fraud and voter intimidation were investigated, leading to the removal from his post of the then Mayor Lutfur Rahman who was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices by an Election Court in 2015. 

Lutfur Rahman

 

It was found that votes for rival parties had been intentionally lost at the count and Mr Rahman was removed from office and banned from standing for election for five years. 

But in spite of very serious issues that proved that the election was rigged, in the following election no proof of identification was introduced. Irregularities also included ballot tampering and postal vote fraud.

Now, yet another scandal has shaken the Labour Party that led to the suspension of East Ham and West Ham constituency parties represented by Stephen Timms and Lyn Brown. 

Stephen Timms

Lyn Brown

Troubled years for the Labour Party that indicated that until further notice no party meetings or business can take place, but Labour Party authorities refused to divulge the nature of the investigation. The allegations of electoral malpractice are said to be wide ranging and supported by a considerable amount of evidence. 

In places like Newham, support for the Labour Party has been massive with practically all seats being occupied by Labour Party Councillors. The borough also has a Labour Party Mayor. How confident can we be that in the coming London Assembly elections voting will be legal? Three separate scandals in constituencies controlled by the Labour Party.

In a few days time, the House of Commons will consider a bill demanding electoral proof of identification for voters. I reckon that such piece of legislation is long overdue to tackle manipulatioon and fraud in elections. 

After the anti-Semitism scandal, the Islamophobia scandal, and several other scandals involving misconduct including sexual misconduct, racism, misuse of public monies, false statements of parliamentary expenses and political intimidation and bribes leading to the arrest of the Labour Mayor in Liverpool, the Labour Party should grasp the opportunity of supporting a piece of legislation aimed at ensuring that voting is legal and that those voting are legally entitled to vote.

It was pretty extraordinary to see a Labour Party MP walking inside the Houses of Parliament wearing a Police electronic tag attached to one of her legs because she lied and falsely accused an innocent person who was overseas of an offense that she herself committed. 

With all that has happened in recent years, the Labour Party can hardly claim that it occupies the high moral ground. 

Changing a leader is easy, but getting of a bad reputation based on corruption, undemocratic practices and examples of incompetence publicly displayed by members of the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet is not going to be easy.

 

Brexit: Isolated as the only political party not supporting a General Election, Labour will vote for General Election

Brexit: Isolated as the only political party not supporting a General Election, Labour will vote for General Election

Finally, today, the House of Commons will debate about a General Election and vote for a General Election, ending years of uncertainty and rising tensions inside the Houses of Parliament and on the streets of Britain.

No milkshakes this time. No verbal abuse nor threats. Just ballots and Democracy as it should have been for the very beginning.

We awair with expectation today's debates in the House of Commons. 

Brexit: Parliament is playing a very dangerous game, an expensive game

Brexit: Parliament is playing a very dangerous game, an expensive game

When Anna Soubry rose in the House of Commons the game was self-evident. Why not a General Election? For the same reasons that the Labour Party doesn't want a General Election. Plagued by internal conflicts and divisions, scandals, it remains to be seen if the Labour Party is not actually the big loser in the skirmishes linked to Brexit.

Jeremy Corbyn knows that this could well be the end of his political career. After all that is happening in the Labour Party, losing a General Election means goodbye to the Leadership of the Labour Party and a reshuffle that will be the end of the road for John McDonnell and others that will be blamed for the context in which many Labour MPs left to become Independents and even joined the Liberal Democrats. For some Labour MPs, all the threats will mean very little either because their majorities look unassailable or simply because after decades in politics they are heading for retirement. For other Labour MPs, the risk of their careers being ended by a General Election is very real and therefore they will drag their feet for as long as it is possible to do so. Other Labour MPs see the defeat of the Labour Party and in particular of Jeremy Corbyn as the best opportunity they have to rebuild the Labour Party. Losing an election would be for them a price worth paying 

For the Liberal Democrats, it is the kind of opportunity that they have been looking for for a vary long time. They jumped at the chance of being in government and this is why they were eager to join the Conservative Party in a coalition under the Leadership of David Cameron. In fact, some Labour MPs asked the Liberal Democrats today if they were willing to join the Conservatives in a coalition if the outcome of a General Election is once again a hung Parliament. There is the suspicion that this is exactly what the Leadership of the Liberal Democrats is looking for as several of them - including its present Leader - were in government with the Conservatives. The main difficulty is that the present Liberal Democratic Party was joined by Labour MPs and Conservative MPs and they would be in a very awkward situation.

For those like Chuka Umunna, former Labour MP for Streatham, to leave the Labour Party was a jump into the unknown. Then came the option of joining another political grouping with former Labour MPs and former Conservative MPs called Change UK. But after a dramatic failure in the European Parliament Elections, Chuka Umunna instinctively knew that the only alternative was to join the Liberal Democrats to stand a chance to try to save his political career. In a General Election, he wouldn't stand in Streatham and therefore he would be standing in the City. He secured his position as Liberal Democrat Speaker on Economic Affairs but, would he be willing to be part of a coalition with the Conservatives? For Conservatives who left the Conservative Party and joined the Liberal Democratic Party to see themselves as part of a coalition with the Conservatives would be a paradox and a very uncomfortable position to be in.

But before we can assume that Labour MPs and Conservative MPs who joined the Liberal Democrats would be re-elected but this time as Liberal Democrat MPs, we need to look at what is happening right now. The European Union suggested that they would agree to an extension - that they called a flexible extension - to allow the UK to finalize all legislative processses including the approval of the Withdrawal Agreement agreed with Prime Minister Boris Johnson but the agreement for a flexible extension comes with conditions attached and they are waiting for the House of Commons to make a decision that the House of Commons is not willing to make. The House of Commons hasn't approved the Deal, the House of Commons doesn't want a second Referendum and the House of Commons doesn't want a General Election. What would then be the point of granting an extension - or even a flexible extension? 

Will the EU deny the United Kingdom an extension at the last minute because the House of Commons cannot agree the way forward? It has been reported that tomorrow, a new motion will be put forward that would make possible to have a General Election despite the Fixed Term Parliament Act that requires a two-third majority of all 650 seats of the House of Commons including the seats that have not been occupied by Sinn Fein/IRA. The Speaker and other officials despite being MPs don't vote. For this reason, in order to have the required number of votes - according to the Fixed Term Parliament Act - a vast number of Labour MPs would have to support the motion. Tomorrow, would be decision time in the House of Commons. Would this be the end of the stalemate?

 

On sovereignty: China has every right to exert sovereignty in Hong Kong

On sovereignty: China has every right to exert sovereignty in Hong Kong

BBC's pitfalls and Rory Stewart's obstinacy talking about putting Theresa May's Deal to the vote yet again

BBC's pitfalls and Rory Stewart's obstinacy talking about putting Theresa May's Deal to the vote yet again

Lack of due diligence led the BBC into a trap of its own making. Trying to question Boris Johnson about comments he made long before he became a leadership contender, the BBC invited an Imam to talk about Islamophobia only to find out hours later that the said Iman that has now been expelled by his Mosque and by the school where he was Deputy Headmaster had been writing anti-Semitic comments and derogatory comments about women. Not a happy time for the BBC that was recently put on the spot for getting rid of free TV Licenses for over 75s and for the amounts paid to certain individuals, salaries paid with the income produced by TV Licenses.

Rory Stewart made a fundamental gaffe. The foundation of his argument to become Prime Minister was the idea of trying to push through the House of Commons the very same deal negotiated by Theresa May that was rejected by the House of Commons three times. In the first round he got 19 votes and manage to increase his support to 37 votes, but right after the BBC debate his support simply collapsed losing 10 votes of the 37 he had.

Tomorrow, there be will another round and there would be additional rounds until two candidates are left with the most votes. A series of hustings will take place across the country in which members of the Conservative Party will listen and then vote to decide who is going to be the next British Prime Minister. But, as Churchill stated, "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 

The newly elected Conservative Prime Minister will have to deal with the same fragmented Parliament and as the October 31, 2019 deadline approaches tensions will rise even more. With the EU in a state of disarray, with the Labour Party extremely divided, nobody is the in mood for negotiations. The choice is still a binary option.

Children Services: Extorting money from vulnerable parents

The extent of what is going on with regards to Social Services outsourcing services from private companies that charge parents to see their own children is still being determined. It is indecent and against basic Human Rights to charge parents to see their own children. 

The so called Contact Centres are no more than private businesses charging vulnerable people - very often on benefits or working part-time - that often don't have enough money to pay the £120 fee. If as a parent you don't have enough money to do a bank transfer to the said Contact Centres, the answer is "Sorry, this month you haven't paid and therefore you cannot see your child." 

We have written to Members of Parliament and until now we haven't got a reply. We are going to keep trying because vulnerable people deserve to be helped against what amounts to Slavery in the Twenty-First Century. A better system could not have been designed by the Mafia, but Mafia systems are being using by the State in Britain.

Brexit: I have a plan, a plan that cannot possibly fail

Brexit: I have a plan, a plan that cannot possibly fail

L'Inspecteur May de la Sûreté Conservative

Plan B, as it followed, was Plan A under another letter mmm... name. You cannot have a Customs Union and be members of the Common Market without Freedom of Movement that incidentally was explicitly rejected. If you had Freedom of Movement it would amount to ignoring the outcome of the Referendum on EU Membership.

The SNP doesn't want Brexit. SNP wants to get out of the United Kingdom to then join the EU. Now, this amounts to selling out Scottish Independence. The Scottish Parliament would then surrender Scottish fisheries to the EU and would also surrender many of the powers given to the Scottish Parliament by the Devolution Act. Scottish Independence to then become an EU province? 

For all the talk about the Good Friday Agreement as a great achievement, the Northern Ireland Assembly has not been working for more than two years because the Sinn Fein/IRA walked away from it and asked for conditions that they perfectly know the Protestant Community will never accept. It the Sinn Fein/IRA's way of ensuring that there couldn't be proper Home Rule in Northern Ireland. They did the same in Westminster by getting elected MPs but never taking their seats in the House of Commons. The difference is that without them there still is a working Parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole while in Northern Ireland Devolution has been frozen.

This means that the Catholic Community of Northern Ireland, because of Sinn Fein/IRA, has no representation in Westminster and has no representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Good Friday Agreement was violated by Sinn Fein/IRA and is no longer valid.

Most of the trade of Northern Ireland is not with the Republic of Ireland. Most of the trade of Northern Ireland is with the rest of the United Kingdom and with the rest of the World and the ports of the Republic of Ireland are merely transit ways. Even for the Republic of Ireland the United Kingdom is a major partner.

 

 

Labour MP turned into ordinary criminal

Fiona Onasanya, who was convicted of perverting the course of justice

Labour MP turned into ordinary criminal

She has the luxury and the privilege of being a Member of Parliament belonging to an ethnic minority at a time when many talk about representation of ethnic minorities in the House of Commons. 

She was accused of driving at more than 30 miles an hour in a 20 miles an hour zone. What would have been the rational and decent thing to do? To apologise, pay the penalty and move on with her life and her political life. 

Instead, she chose to lie and not only that. She accused an innocent man of involvement and gave a false address. It didn't register in her mind that the Police would try and contact the person she falsely accused. The authorities found out that the man in question was not even in the country when the incident took place.

She was rightfully convicted of Perverting the Course of Justice - one the most serious crimes anyone can ever commit in the United Kingdom - and is due for sentencing. This individual has let down the Labour Party, has let down her constituents, has let down herself and those related to her and has become an ordinary criminal with the aggravation of having committed a crime being not just a member of the public but an elected representative.

She has proven that she is not somebody that can be trusted and she has proven that she doesn't have the moral fibre to be a Member of Parliament. 

I am sure that there are many potential representatives of Black communities in the United United Kingdom that could do a much better job than this despicable individual. She is a disgrace to her own race.

Brexit: The climate of political uncertainty could lead to the unthinkable

Brexit: The climate of political uncertainty could lead to the unthinkable

This evening while travelling I asked an elderly passenger on a train going home if in his own personal experience he had witnessed a political crisis like the one Britain is facing right now. You can ask a politician, a journalist, an ordinary member of the public and nobody has the faintest idea about 'what next?'.

The House of Commons is due to consider on January 29 2018 a deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May that will be presumably exactly the same deal that many Members of Parliament said that they would reject because they think that it is a very bad deal for Britain and its relations with the European Union, a deal that does not respect the will of the British Electorate expressed in the 2016 Referendum on EU Membership.

There are those who push for a Vote of No Confidence against the present British government headed by Theresa May. Some see it as a way to force Prime Minister Theresa May to resign. Some talk about a General Election and others talk about a new Referendum on EU Membership.

One wonders about what could happen if Theresa May - that has just been confirmed as Leader of the Conservative Party after a Leadership Challenge - loses a Vote of No Confidence in the House of Commons. Even if the Deal the Prime Minister negotiated by Parliament, Theresa May would continue as Prime Minister because of regulations of the Conservative Party that prevent any challenges. She could stay as Prime Minister for another year.

Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn hesitates about asking for a Vote of No confidence. Having done the political sums, he knows that a Vote of No Confidence is a risky option. Members of Parliament from all political parties - including the Labour Party - could vote against it. It could unite the Conservative Party and produce an embarrassing defeat for the Labour Party under his leadership. Moreover, most Labour Constituencies across the country voted to Leave the European Union.

At Committee Level, enquiries have continued about the level of preparedness to face a No Deal outcome. The legality of the Deal proposed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been questioned since it goes against legislation passed by Parliament that determined that Britain will be leaving the European Union on March 29th 2019.  

In May 2019, about a month after Britain is set to leave the European Union, there will be European Parliament Elections that would produce a new political reality in the European Union. What kind of EU Parliament and what kind of European Commission would the said elections produce? Would there be a more favourable environment in terms of a better agreement with the United Kingdom?

Prime Minister Theresa May was severely criticised for not putting her Deal to a vote on the day it was supposed to be put to a vote. Some say that it happened because she was afraid of yet another significant defeat in the House of Commons that could end her political career. Others say that she is playing for time trying to get further concessions from the EU.

Brexit: December 11th 2018 House of Commons

Brexit: December 11th 2018 House of Commons

One month after the 11th of November 2018, the anniversary of Armistice Day comes the vote in the House of Commons of the deal proposed by Prime Minister Theresa May that according to UK's Attorney General and main legal adviser of the British government is a legal trap that will transform the United Kingdom into a colony of a foreign power.

Once in there is every change that Britain will be never out transforming what Theresa May categorised as a deal to comply with the decision made by the British Electorate in the EU Membership Referendum of 2016 into a trap that will leave Britain in a much worse position both politically and economically.

It has been said that Theresa May who campaigned to remain in the European Union has deliberately plotted to keep the United Kingdom inside the European Union and that without caring for the United Kingdom she broke a deal that will actually enslave an entire country and subject to the designs of the European Union.

But there is much worse to come. Sources from within the British Armed Forces have indicated that in secret meetings the British Prime Minister has agreed to surrender the British Armed Forces and British Security Services including MI5 an MI6 to the European Union.

If what many fear becomes a reality, Britain will be faced with a political crisis of major proportions comparable to the British Civil War, a Charles I/Oliver Cromwell moment, in which heads will be chopped.

Tuesday, December 11th 2018 is also a crucial deal for all political parties involved. The Status Quo might no longer be an option and political fragmentation is in the cards.

Zac Goldsmith's stark warning in the House of Commons: Those who deny Brexit will play into the hands of the Far Right

Zac Goldsmith's stark warning in the House of Commons: Those who deny Brexit will play into the hands of the Far Right

As more and more groups with extreme views are discovered in the United Kingdom, it goes without a doubt that should Parliament go against Brexit this would play directly into the hands of the Far Right.

The British Armed Forces are increasingly supporting Far Right groups. As it has come loud and clear after a series of events, British serving soldiers and British veterans support the Far Right and are directly involved in training camps across the United Kingdom and overseas. People don't have military training unless they are willing to kill.

Parliament has lost credibility and going against Brexit could prove to be a fatal blow to Democracy in the United Kingdom. More and more people lost faith in the EU Project that is now heading towards a United States of Europe with its own Armed Forces controlled by German autocrats that are going against the German People.

Attacks against Jews in Germany are rising to the point that a Jewish Authority in Germany called on all Jews to avoid wearing any attire or body ornament that could identify them as Jews.

In France, President Macron - one of the most unpopular Presidents in the history if France if not the least popular - is using increasing levels of violence against protesters. It is a matter of time for the unpopular President to use the Armed Forces against the French People.

The European Union is not the Promised Land those who support the EU Project talk about.

 

Brexit's new nightmare: Theresa May allows a motion of disclosure of legal advice that comes to haunt her

Brexit's new nightmare: Theresa May allows a motion to disclosure of legal advice on new deal that comes to haunt her.

Geoffrey Cox MP - UK Attorney General - confirms that May's deal is a pile of dangerous shit - a calculated risk he called it.

What the so called deal actually does is to lock up Britain and put Britain forever at the mercy of the European Union, unable to come out of a bad deal.
Sticking to what Geoffrey Cox MP said on the floor of the House of Commons, Theresa May's deal is actually an act of treason that transforms Britain into a colony - forced to adopt decisions made by the European Union and unable to challenge decisions made by the European Union. Not the kind of Brexit that people voted for in 2016 on the EU Membership Referendum.

Parliament now wants to know what exactly the legal advice give to Prime Minister Theresa May was - not a bit of it but the whole of it. Theresa May's is terrified of the truth coming out just a few days before the so called Deal is going to be put to the vote in the House of Commons. The vote is due to take place on December 11th 2018.

Jo Cox's assassination proves a fundamental point

Jo Cox's Assassination proves a fundamental point

Levels of anger are rising exponentially and if politicians choose to ignore public anger they will do so at their peril. Ivory Castles are no protection whatsoever. 

We are going though a transition period and uncertainty is overwhelming. No one should feel safe because there is no safety.

If the political class doesn't meet the needs of the people they are supposed to represent there will be dramatic consequences. If the electoral system is not fit for purpose and more and more people feel unrepresented violence will follow.

Political clarity is not a matter of convenience. It is an absolute necessity to keep Democracy alive. If Members of the House of Commons choose ideology instead of reality, they are going to pay the ultimate price. If people like Vince Cable and others keep adding logs to the fire, the consequences will be dire. There cannot be any reconciliation. The country spoke but too many Members of Parliament are bent on ignoring the peoples' vote. Liberals are trying to sell a lie. Look at the state of many countries in the European Union. What do you see? Do you see the ideal image that people like Vince Cable are trying to sell? The Paradise they are trying to sell looks like Hell on Earth.

Those they call Far Right are the ones who are fed up with the mess Liberals have created. Those they call Far Right are the victims of ethnic cleansing promoted by Liberals like Vince Cable. Flood Immigration is Colonisation and Colonisation is fuelling crime against local populations.

 

Political Detainees in British Prisons punished for Failures of Prison Staff

Political Detainees in British Prisons punished for Failures of Prison Staff

Away from the eyes of the General Public, conditions in British Prisons seem to be deteriorating with every passing day. When somebody is punished for having being given a magazine that Prison Staff in charge of vetting allowed in we face an Alice in Wonderland reality.

Prison Staff in charge of vetting are to blame for having allowed in forbidden publications. They were not punished. Instead, the inmate who had no responsibility for the behaviour of Prison Staff was punished. His right to receive visitors was withdrawn. His cell was raided and his access to shower facilities was limited to 'once a month'.

Thousands of prison wardens are leaving. There are serious deficiencies in terms of over-crowded and crimes committed inside British jails where those sent to jail are de-facto facing a death sentence because of lack of security.
I lived and worked under a Military Regime in extreme conditions and never expected to find such levels of irrationality in the United Kingdom. This happens to Political Detainees in the United Kingdom where Members of Parliament are being investigated for sexual abuses, racism and abuse of authority committed against staff inside the Houses of Parliament. If we elect criminals to represent us a Members of Parliament, what can you expect from those elsewhere?

What do people really want? Mainstream political parties might not be the answer

Mainstream political parties might not be the answer.

There were Whigs and Tories, Conservatives and Liberals and later on Conservatives and Labour and Liberals. Britain keeps changing and this is only natural. The system kept evolving. There was a time when only those with a certain income could vote. There was a time when women couldn't vote. The system hasn't been the same. It has changed and needs to keep changing to accommodate new realities.

First-past-the-post might no longer be the answer. In fact, when the London Assembly was conceived the system chosen included a vote per constituency and a London-wide vote. You vote for your chosen candidate at local level and you also vote for a party-candidate regardless of where you live within the Greater London Region.

In time, political parties have become Vote Cooperatives - a blend of people who might have diametrically opposed views on practically every issue and only come together under a label in order to get elected. This is an anomaly that leads to people voting for ideas that they reject simply because they come under the same banner ie Conservative, Labour.

Anna Soubry and Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative Party) and Hilary Benn and Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party) got elected under the same banners and the present crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was made by the way political parties are organised. Vote Cooperatives lead to confusion and crisis. Journalists and politicians talk about splitting political parties and mention it saying that it would be a catastrophic event. In fact, splitting political parties would be the best thing that could happen because it will clearly show the electorate what political parties really and truly stand for.

For many years, it has been said that the House of Lords is unrepresentative because its members are not elected. The House of Commons is unrepresentative because political parties are marred in confusion. When you vote Conservative or Labour, what are you actually voting for?

We could have several political parties with clear political agendas. We could have two elected chambers - a Senate and a House of Representatives. Senators would be elected nationally and Representatives would 'represent' local constituencies and a specifically written Constitution for everybody to know what the rules are. We could introduce a ballotage system. Senators and Representatives would come out of the first round of elections and a President and Vice-President would be elected after the second round to ensure that they have both cross-party political support.

Einstein defines 'Insanity' as the attempt to get different results using exactly the same methods. We can trust Providence to give us a strong leader or we change the electoral system and have a written Constitution.

The political system is in crisis and it will not be mended because Britain has changed and the political system is very much anchored in the past.

Devolution created a whole set of contradictions that included a Scottish Parliament, a Welsh Assembly and a Northern Ireland Assembly (hasn't been working for more than a year) but failed to create an English Parliament. Devolution should have been about creating a Federal System. You could have National Parliaments and a Federal Parliament in which all nations could be represented. Unfortunately, expediency and a rush to introduce patches instead of generating a coherent political reality has led to paralysis. Driven by circumstances, the Westminster Parliament is forced to introduce legislation to deal with issues that the Northern Ireland Assembly should be dealing with and it isn't dealing with.

Looking at London and the way London is governed, there are virtually power monopolies and no working Opposition. There are no effective power balances. Boroughs are effectively Feudal States and on top of the Boroughs structure there is a London Assembly with limited attributions. Overlapping authorities create costly confusion and limit accountability. So call Safe Seats are the opposite of a working democracy. We have a system in which - in most cases - you already know who is going to win before the election ever takes place.

Internet is not a threat. It is a safety valve

Internet is not a threat. It is a safety valve.

I strongly believe that Internet is a safety valve that allows to diffuse much of the frustrations that could turn into violence. I believe that in a deeply divided society in which despite rising numbers the individual is paradoxically increasingly isolated, we need the means to allow grievances to be vented safely. For this reason, I reckon that attempts to prevent people from expressing their feelings in social media are misguided and dangerous.

Some years ago, I wrote a piece about Thomas Hamilton, a loner that was a member of a gun club in the United Kingdom. Thomas Hamilton was a ticking bomb, loaded with frustrations and resentment made a lot worse by the fact that he couldn't let go of the anguish that was growing and growing inside. Suddenly, one day, he decided to arm himself and walk into a public school where he shot dead teachers, parents and pupils.

Jo Cox's case is cited as a case of politically motivated assassination when in fact it was a case of a mental health patient that on the eve of the attack was asking the National Health Service for support because in his own words he was feeling emotionally troubled. Thomas Mair was also having mental health problems but the case was completely distorted and made to appear as politically motivated. Thomas Mair was described as a Right Wing Terrorist.

In a society in which one in ten teenagers are showing symptoms of mental health problems that go untreated in most cases, social media play a vital role. Those who do not have a rewarding and fulfilling private life can use the Internet and social media to relieve some of the pressure they are under.

I think some British politicians are getting things extremely wrong. Censoring and banning can only make matters a lot worse. I do believe that putting things under the carpet is not the answer. It is better for things to happen in the open so that we know what people are truly feeling and thinking. You might not like some of the comments people make but this is no justification whatsoever to prevent them from expressing what they truly feel and think.

Britain has a particularly serious problem. Why hasn't anybody asked why so many people are choosing to live alone and why so many that would like to have some kind of social interaction are being ostracised? Let's remember that we live in a country in which not less than 15,000 people take their own lives every year (this is about the cases that we know but there will be plenty more that we don't know about). I guess we only notice the problem when our train services are cancelled because somebody jumped onto the rails in front of a passing train.

Behind the drugs problem, there are fundamental social issues related to how we interact with each other. In the Digital Era of Mass Communications millions of people don't have a voice and feel completely abandoned.

If Sinn Fein doesn't want to be in the British Parliament, they should resign their seats

Sinn Fein doesn't recognise the British Parliament and its elected Members of Parliament don't want to seat in the House of Commons.

This anomaly should be resolved straight away. If you are elected to serve as Member of Parliament and you never join the British Parliament then your seat should be declared vacant and by-election should take place.

If a political party stands in a General Election and when having Members of Parliament chooses not to enter the House of Commons, then the said party should not be allowed to take party in General Elections.

Britain has put up for too long with the sillines of Sinn Fein and the time is long overdue for Parliament to exercise its powers to ensure that those elected as Members of Parliament actually work as Members of Parliament and do attend sessions of the House of Commons.

In the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein representatives should have been told that unless they agreed to take part in politics representing their electorate in the House of Commons they would not be allowed to stand in British Politics.

Theresa May is absolutely right in asking the country for a clear mandate

To be or not to Be: That is the question.

When Prime Minister Theresa May was elected by the Conservative Party, many of those criticising her for calling an early election said that 'she had not been elected in a General Election'.

As soon as Prime Minister Theresa May went to Parliament to amend the legislation about fixed 5-year Parliaments and won, she was criticised for asking the British people for a clear mandate.

I am not a member of the Conservative Party or of any other political party for that matter. I vote with my conscience regardless of any party political allegiance and I say that Prime Minister Theresa May is absolutely right to call a General Election when some of the most crucial negotiations modern Britain will be engaged in are due to take place.

I witnessed the mayhem and confusion in the House of Commons, the sniper-fire and the air of division and without a shadow of a doubt a House of Commons elected after the implementation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty was badly needed because the one we had did not represent the will of the Electorate expressed on June 23, 2016.

We need a Parliament that is fully behind the British Prime Minister showing a United Kingdom that is truly united supporting the will of the British people who, at the end of the day, is the true sovereign of the United Kingdom.

When the new House of Commons rises it will be a House of Commons that truly reflects the will of the Electorate and not a House of Commons that was embattled in the campaign for or against the implementation of Article 50 of the House of Commons.

We hope to see the real balance of forces in all home nations and undoubtedly there is a question mark about the level of support for the Scottish National Party that constantly threatens to break up the United Kingdom cajoling, blackmailing and concocting all kinds of schemes that threaten the political stability of the United Kingdom and weakens the United Kingdom when confronted with external powers.

I will stop short of qualifying Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP as traitors but the actions of the SNP and of its leader are controversial not to say treacherous and treasonable. There was a lawful Referendum on Scottish Independence, Referendum that the SNP has asked for and campaigned for and there was a clear majority of Scots that chose to be part of the United Kingdom. So where the United Kingdom goes, Scotland goes and there is no way out of it. That was the commitment made when people were asked if the wanted an independent Scotland.

All home nations will act as one, together, when decisions are made in the negotiations with the European Union because they share one destiny as the United Kingdom.

Those opposing the implementation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty even appealed to the maximum Court in the land and the maximum Court in the land said loudly and clearly that it was up to the national Parliament and its elected chamber the House of Commons to make a decision and that all other assemblies including the Scottish Parliament should have no say in the matter.

The Scottish government regardless of being or not being a majority in the Scottish Parliament and regardless of the number of MPs that represent the SNP in the House of Commons have to obey the will of the majority in the House of Commons.

The General Election is about having or not having a strong government to negotiate the future relationship with the European Union. Everything else comes second place. The priority is to show a united United Kingdom with an elected Primer Minister backed up by an unquestionable political mandate to do whatever is necessary.