We the people have chosen; and we have chosen to leave the
EU! It is a double victory for democracy, because the British people have not
only exercised their democratic rights to determine how they are governed, but
have also chosen to reject the European Commission (EC) and its undemocratic
and technocratic form of government.
Now the job of creating a different future begins. Our free
debate has led to a democratic result. Now is the time for unity and people should
be wary about those who will seek to exploit this historic decision for their
own ends. Evidently this is already happening which is a timely reminder how
easy it is for people to be led astray – not that anyone would admit to being
led astray.
And if anyone was hoping that we might see an end to the
name calling, the scaremongering, and the end of world predictions, their hopes
will be dashed, for already there are people saying all sorts of strange things
about what might happen and what they are going to do, which suggests that the
concept of democracy is not fully understood and is something that some people
are willing to respect only if it delivers the result that they want. They are
only ensuring that we the people will not be asked again to decide upon important
issues, which just plays into the hands of elites and powerful vested
interests.
People should stop being so negative. Unplug yourself from
Facebook and calm down. Be constructive. Once the dust has settled and people
have had time for more considered reflection, the matter will seem very
different.
People who are bitter and negative and want to be doomsayers
will not be the ones who will be shaping our new future because the only people
who will listen to the doomsayers will be their fellow doomsayers and they will
just become an isolated and embittered minority. No-one wants to listen to
people using bad language and to insults directed at people who did what they
thought best for their country. Show some respect. It you want to participate,
use your intellect and develop your arguments and learn to accept that in a
democracy not everyone can get their own way. Those who have won the argument on
this occasion are aware that there are people who do not agree with the
majority decision, but, the reality is that the majority decision is the way we
have to go. Not to follow the wishes of the majority will just damage democracy
and undermine further the credibility of our system of elected representation.
Remember that the alternative to democracy is a dictatorship, an authoritarian
style of government, where you will not be allowed to write what you want to
write in Facebook.
Our future will be what we decide it will be and not what
negative thinking doomsayers would like it to be just to prove that they are
right. Let us now, therefore, make a success of the direction in which the
country has to go.
We will make some more observations, when the time is right.
This is not the right time, so we end by remembering the forgotten youth of
Greece whose futures have been destroyed by people, far away, pursuing
megalomaniac schemes; people far removed from the consequences of their actions,
who in ‘shining towers’ live in the bubble world that is the Emperor’s Court
(EC). When will someone tell the emperor that he is wearing no clothes?
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