A brutal murder has taken place, the victim lies dead, bloodied, bruised and bludgeoned over many years of continual abuse eventually succumbing. So who shall solve this horrible crime? However, it does not need the likes of Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells, nor the forensic investigation of Sherlock Holmes or the thoughtful considerations of Inspector Morse, the cruel and dastardly perpetrators of this brutal offense are there for all to see as long as they open their eyes.
The victim of this terrible crime is, of course, our once cherished democracy. Those with the blood of our now deceased democracy on their hands are a long succession of politicians going back over fifty years. Just like the near final scenes of Agatha Christie's 'Death on the Nile', blow by blow our democracy has been weakened, undermined and killed by a line of politicians all waiting their turn to put the knife in. Those of us who care are left to grieve over the death of our democracy and to wonder what went wrong.
When did the victimisation of democracy begin? A good starting place would be from 1970, others may say further back with the start of mass immigration without consulting or getting the consent of the people of Britain, this was to change the nature and culture of the once United Kingdom forever - and no politician asked the British people if they wanted such a drastic change. However, with the election of Ted Heath as the UK Prime Minister in 1970, he wanted to be the man to eventually succeed in getting the UK signed up as a member of the then European Economic Community, or as it was commonly known at the time, the 'Common Market'. His advisers warned him the Continentals were taking liberties during the membership negotiations, such as making a grab for the UK's very rich fishing waters by making them a common resource. Heath was warned about the loss of sovereignty, his response to that was to lie to the British people and told them there would be no loss of "Essential sovereignty" knowing full well otherwise. When his advisers winced at what was coming he told them to: "Swallow it all and swallow it whole".
When Maggie Thatcher belatedly came to her senses about the true intentions of the Community other politicians within her party stabbed her in the back, Howe Hesseltine and many have the blood of her and our democracy on their hands. John Major had his turn too and gave away massive powers and a large chunk of sovereignty to the EU when signing the dreadful Maastricht Treaty, he too had his moment with the increasingly bloodied knife. However, the actions of Tony Blair made all the others look like amateur assassins, he really got stuck in from the moment he walked through the famous No10 door.
He began his democracy assassination without delay, one of his first acts within days of becoming PM was to surrender the UK opt-out of the EU Social Chapter, from then on he was happy to give many of our democratic freedoms away to the EU. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown, as part of the Blair Government, sold off around half of our UK gold reserves and by flooding the market with gold all was sold at a vastly undervalued price costing the taxpayers £billions. All this was done in order to purchase the new, and at the time a struggling euro to help keep it afloat. Blair also privatised the NHS with the private finance initiative (PFI), this meant new hospitals and much of the equipment within was built and supplied by private companies with the Government leasing them back at inflated prices. This was done, once again at vast expense to the taxpayers and only done for him to comply with the EU's new borrowing and spending limits, which was to ensure countries who had surrendered their currencies and economies to the EU by joining the euro could not create a debt that would fall on all the other eurozone nations. He willingly complied to this EU diktat even though Britain did not join in with the insanity of the EU currency, much to his displeasure.
After the constant stabbings of our dying democracy, suddenly, there was a glimmer of hope. Despite everything, mortally wounded and dying, democracy gave birth to Brexit on that glorious June day in 2016 when the long suffering people of the UK were finally given a say. They happily and enthusiastically voted leave, Britain, its democracy and sovereignty had a glimmer of hope and of freedom. It was hoped democracy may yet live with a chance to be self a governing nation again and to make our own way in the world without having to do as the EU instructed, which included all our trade deals which were then done by the EU of which, as members, we had no choice but to comply. Sadly, the killers of democracy had a taste for blood, their knives were still sharp, thus the infant of democracy, from the moment of birth, also came under endless attack.
At first politicians wanted a referendum re-run and considered. the people, who they were elected to serve, had got it wrong. To them with their distorted view of democracy it was the people who were there to serve them and do as told, not them to serve the people. Then there were legal attacks against Brexit as well as an incompetent Prime Minister in the shape of Theresa May who began to make a total bodge of negotiations with the EU. She began surrendering to all their unreasonable demands from the start of negotiations. Finally, Boris Johnson got the job done with, due to the May shambles, a far from the best deal, especially for the loyal people of Northern Ireland who were abandoned to the clutches of the EU. Sadly the once rich and successful UK's fishing industry, which had also been systematically destroyed and made a shadow of its former self over many years by EU regulations and unfair quotas, was still stuck with quotas and EU fishing boats plundering UK waters. At least at the end of January 2020 the Brexit infant was set free but the anti-democracy plotters were waiting. They were lurking both in Parliament and the Civil Service, ironically these were the very people who had the job of making sure this young and vulnerable child of democracy was nurtured and made strong. Those who it was who were to make Brexit survive and thrive from its birth set about killing and destroying it, they did not want it to flourish and to revive our democracy. This time their weapon of choice was slow poisoning.
Ten years after the Brexit vote and six years since it was set free, the Brexit infant is sick and suffering, with a steady drip of poison, they are killing democracies child and those doing the dirty dead are making false claims it is not working and we should once again surrender to the EU and to dispose what is left of the corpse of democracy. If they get their way by rejoining the EU the Brexit infant will be well and truly euthanised. Of course they conveniently forget to inform the people that if they do succeed with their total betrayal the UK opt-outs we had at the time of escaping the EU's bureaucratic clutches will not be there. To rejoin will bring back Heath's words, "Swallow it all and swallow it whole". This would include accepting total surrender to the EU, putting thousand of EU laws onto our statute book and, of course, the pound sterling would face execution to be usurped by the EU's euro with our economy no longer under our control but instead run by the EU's Central Bank, not to forget Schengen which would open the UK's borders to one and all. Should the rejoiner assassins achieve their aim then democracy and its child of Brexit will be done to death along with freedom.