Whose interest does Tony Blair’s government really seek to serve?

Tony Blair famously stated after winning the 2005 general election with a much reduced majority that he recognised that the electorate had spoken through the ballot box and that it was time for New Labour to listen far more intently to the views of the British people.

Well apart from the record numbers who are emigrating abroad to escape totalitarianism, the people haven’t gone away. In the meantime nobody from the government has asked me or anyone I know about my views.

Quite the contrary in fact; this morning the BBC reported that as a result of the enactment of the Organised Crime and Police

5, Parliament has insulated itself from peaceful protest by enforcing a 1 Km cordon around the Palace of Westminster ‘except were police permission is granted’, (and we all know who pays the Metropolitan Police, the Home Office of course, (with our tax money).

Apart from a lone voice protesting about Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war and the police using all their powers to have him moved away from the parliament buildings, another individual, Mark Barrett, was fined £250 for holding a tea party in Parliament Square in protest at the ban on peaceful protest. Sounds like a circular argument to me.

I was talking with my neighbour about some of these issues yesterday, (I think that’s still allowed), and her response was that she thinks that before long the natives will start revolting. So maybe it’s not just me who’s disillusioned with the state of affairs in Britain today.