‘The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself …..Short of assassination there is little people can do when their political masters have forgotten the true meaning of the democracy of which they are forever prating, are determined to have their own way at all costs and hold public opinion in contempt.
I feel I speak not just for myself but for the huge majority of my generation who think as I do but whose voices are so often lost in the clamour.
We are yesterday’s people, the over-the-hill gang. (Yes, the old people – not the senior citizens or the time-challenged, but the old people.) Those of ultra-liberal views may take consolation from this – that my kind won’t be around much longer, and then they can get on with wrecking civilisation in peace…’
Fraser is a man I admire hugely, a fine writer whose book “Quartered Safe Out Here” has to rank as one of the best things I’ve read. And a line in the above quote–“Short of assassination there is little people can do when their political masters have forgotten the true meaning of the democracy ..” really hits the nail on the head.
Politicians have the power to wreck lives, wipe out industries, to undo centuries of custom and tradition, destroy liberty -with almost no consequences save perhaps being voted out of office. Voted out, only to be comfortably inserted into some well-paying, comfortable, equally unaccountable sinecure by the contacts they’ve made while in office. We need to introduce real consequences for the behaviour of these vermin. Wabbit’s personal preference is for those consequences to be in very compact form, delivered at high velocity behind the left ear. But that’s unlikely to become especially popular since nobody wants to spend a life behind bars as a reward for an act of simple pest control. So we need to find other ways of making the bastards pay, and pay dearly for defying the popular will.
