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  2. I believe that future historians will write of the ‘Great Climate Change Hysteria’ in tones of reverential awe.

    ‘Reverential awe’, at the sheer unmitigated assinine naive hubristic unparalleled stupidity with which millions have leapt onto the notion that we can ‘stop climate change’.

    First it was ‘the earth is getting colder’; then, ‘the earth is getting warmer’; then, ‘MANKIND is causing the earth to get warmer’. And last, of course, a whole raft of enslaving, liberty-denying measures proposed to control all of humanity (heavily taxed, too), with a group of ‘philosopher kings’ who will tell us all what to do and how to live.

    As Devil’s Kitchen recently pointed out, the ‘AGW’ movement is fascistic, totalitarian, and literally ‘anti-human’. As such we are under exactly zero obligation to obey its diktats, OR to obey the diktats of any government which presumes (as this one does) to trammel our liberties.

    These sons of whores in Westminster and elsewhere truly believe that ‘they are the masters’ and we are mere slaves who should pay our taxes and obey. Every month we see yet more wastage of our hard-earned pounds on idiotic ‘envirofriendly’ projects; every month we see yet more commands which we must obey, under threat of State coercion. Every month the agents of the State assume a bit more control of some aspect of our lives.

    At what point, I wonder, does the State lose its legitimacy, and the sovereign People have no further obligation to obey it?

  3. At what point, I wonder, does the State lose its legitimacy, and the sovereign People have no further obligation to obey it?

    I would suggest that we have already passed that point…

  4. Well, I believe that this government is still ‘legitimate’, in the sense that it IS elected by the ordinary citizens.

    Aside from the lunatic ideas of our own politicians, more and more laws are enacted in Brussels, and the UK’s elected government has no real say at all in their legislation. That being so, the ordinary citizen is NOT represented effectually, since his own MP cannot really affect policy in an increasing number of areas. Much of the ridiculous legislation driving ‘government policy’ doubtless originates in Belgium these days.

    So, I’d say that the UK government IS legitimate, but is also increasingly trammelled by EU regulations over which it has no control. The only way effectually to return Parliament to its former status as ‘representing the citizenry’ would be to disassociate the UK from EU control altogether, perhaps substituting ‘market partner’ status as Norway and Switzerland do. I don’t have much hope that this will happen, however.

  5. And a final comment:

    Regarding ‘anthropogenic global warming’, a hypothesis (not a ‘fact’) of very dubious scientific basis, we should, in theory, be able to influence Parliamentary policy toward ‘climate change’ by petition and letter to our various MPs.

    But if, as I assume, they themselves are bound by EU law to comply with various ‘directives’ relating to climate change, then our MPs have no more influence than we over such matters–which may account for the proliferation of crazy ideas such as on/offshore wind, tidal barrages, etc, etc. Not to mention ‘banning patio heaters’…

    I understand that Parliament has signed away its sovereignty over time, but in theory Parliament can reclaim that sovereignty as well (I would hope, anyway). I expect an interesting few years ahead as our MPs realize just how much they’ve ceded to Brussels. Perhaps this is why sessions of Parliament appear to be so poorly attended lately?

    Meantime, I guess all we can do is hope for the best. We have a democratically-elected, legitimate government which has, unfortunately, signed away its powers to a government which is not British, and which is not meaningfully accountable to the British electorate. I leave it to theorists to discuss whether it actually possessed the ‘right’ to do so, and whether a government without power is of any actual use to those it purports to govern. The real power appears to lie in Brussels these days.

    Thoughts?

  6. I think it unlikely that we will pull out of the EU – the people who signed away our parliament’s powers did so with their own ends in mind. While I was being partially facetious, that this government was elected democratically doesn’t alter the fact that they do not represent the majority of the electorate; nor even the majority of those who bothered to vote. That they consistently act against the best interests of the electorate undermines any legitimacy they may claim to have.

    Frankly, if our parliament is now effectively in Brussels, why not dissolve Westminster and just have the European one and be done with it.

    On the matter of influencing one’s MP, I have first hand experience of the futility of that particular exercise… 😐

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