WHERE TO WITH THE GSLP-LIBERALS?

WHERE TO WITH THE GSLP-LIBERALS?

Interest and participation by people and by the press are essential ingredients of a democracy, which encompasses much more than just elections every four years. If individual voter or press engagement are absent, the result is a reduction or breakdown of a functioning democracy.

Such a lack leads to a small clique governing us without much, or any, opposition, resistance, or public comment. Increasing the likelihood of cronyism and corruption and risking a further shrinking of the democratic process, especially if voter turnout at elections dwindles.

FEWER VOTERS?

Yes, fewer voters at a General Election may face Gibraltar now. We shall see whether smaller numbers turn out at the next election, especially if there are no new development in the current political scene.

Those who believe their vote will make little difference, due to the following that any incumbent Government gains by giving away goodies just before an election, stay away; as do some supporters of opposition parties, who believe they are climbing a hill to achieve change, so they do not make the effort to vote.

MP INACTION

That electoral disinterest is made worse by the inaction of many elected MPS, namely, the ones who sit on the Opposition benches in Parliament, currently the GSD (in the main).

They are being seen to do little or nothing to promote different policies, or show up any lack of good government, or even impropriety on the part of those in Government, currently the GSLP-Liberals.

It is voids like this that are often replaced by new elements. Gibraltar desperately needs that vacuum to be filled soon. Keith Azopardi simply does not have it, and so does not make it up, only in that sense!

PRESS FAILINGS

Matters are further worsened by the press being controlled, in all but name, by Government purse strings, or by being associated with political parties, which, coincidently, find it easier to survive financially whilst the publisher is in government.

In the main, our current press is reduced to regurgitating self-interested press releases from either the GSLP-Liberals or the GSD, with a spattering from Together Gibraltar, or party organ propagandist content in support of party policies.

Many of these exchanges, neither touch on matters of interest, nor delve deeply into issues that concern voters. The repetition of arguments between the Government and other politicians, without editorial investigation, analysis, or comment is much to the boredom and disinterest of most readers or listeners, who are the people who need to be encouraged to vote.

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“Capital must protect itself in every possible manner by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through a process of law, the common people lose their homes they will become more docile and more easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government, applied by a central power of wealth under control of leading financiers. This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.” — Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, 1920 – 1944 Reprinted in the Idaho Leader, USA, on August 26, 1924 and read twice into the Australian Federal Hansard by John Evans MP in 1926, and by MD Cowan MP, in the 1930 – 1931 session.

No matter what so-called “president” (or in Gibraltar’s case Chief minister) is at the helm of “government,” he is merely taking orders and must do as he is told.

The TRUTH about Democracy.

The First Principle of God's Government - Theocracy

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"good practices"

Magicians transferring "good practices" into public policies.
In commercial law, in banking law, "good practices" arise from bank operators excluding the population in decisions made for them. By slight of hand, by repetition, by knowledge that the chattel could not possibly understand. Language that emits emotion which can be symbolic and keeps outsiders at a distance. Meaningless absurdity... evoke... promote.. shame and blame... It doesn't matter. It's all the same.
Comprehensive policies worldwide, developing ideologies, and imaginary economics. Bloated to the brim with supervisors, managers, mediators, experts, consultants, employees... Solutions creating problems, problems creating money. A social construct that is at the end of its life cycle. Academia, media, politicians all the gatekeepers of the global regime, hostile to the host nation, even the opposition plays his role in keeping the public in check.

"Good Practices"
Part of every public policy enslaving man made laws ever imagined

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