The DEBill is to become the DEAct. Suddenly everyone is indignant that Parliament is not supporting the will of the people and that it must stop. The most ironic thing, however, I’ve seen so far was a tweet saying “go out and vote”.

Why?

Seriously, our representative democracy is a good idea, like socialism or communism. Fine ideas. Only when put into practice it doesn’t work.

What should happen:

A representative of the people should be elected by those people to speak for them.

What does happen:

A representative of the people is elected to speak for lobbyists/funders, ignoring the people until they can’t stomach it any more and vote for another representative to speak for lobbyists/funders.

When will it stop?

When people stop voting.

A politician should be a servant to the people, not reined in by the people when (s)he gets too silly.

And we don’t even have that any more. Anyone busy boggling about the passing of the Digital Economy bill with so much clear opposition from the people has a very short memory. Iraq? Million+ people on the streets protesting a war that happened regardless.

And you know that it doesn’t matter who was in power, this war was demanded by their backers, funders and friends. Tory, Labour, irrelevant, it would still have happened.

We are the world’s biggest arms salesman. We achieved this honour a while ago. If you weren’t aware, it’s what drives economic policy. We’ve reached a place where there’s not quite enough natural conflict in the world so we need to knock over a few anthills.

So we will soon have a “Digital Economy Bill” that is supported by whomever it is that gets into power. Who can you vote for to end this? No-one.