How To Make Your Vote Count At The Next Election - Without Voting For One Of The Moronic Bastards Standing For The Three Main Political Parties


A special message to British readers

How We Can Reshape Our Own Future

Vernon Coleman


In our Cruel New World, ruled by men such as Bush and Blair, standing up for your principles has become very dangerous. If you put your head up above the parapet you are likely to have it shot off.

If you protest you will be filmed and photographed. If you speak out against tyranny the authorities will watch your every move, listen to your every word and read everything you write. If (even in a private conversation or exchange of e-mails) you say anything critical of the Government you will be listed as a terrorist sympathiser. The line between terrorism and legitimate civil disobedience has been deliberately blurred by the Government; which is using a deliberately manufactured fear of the former as an excuse to suppress the latter.

We have lost our privacy and we have damned near lost our freedom. Our Government has given itself unbelievable new powers to listen to, read and monitor all our communications and transactions. Personal privacy, the essence of true liberty, no longer exists. And the worst is yet to come. Our ruthless and abusive Government clearly intends to extend its powers still further - and to continue to take away what few rights we have left and what little privacy remains.

Every new piece of legislation is now introduced in the name of terrorism. But the truth is that terrorism is a minor cause of death in the UK. Indeed, there are fewer terrorist attacks in the UK now than there were a few years ago when the American-funded IRA was targeting the UK with some regularity.

Surveillance cameras are everywhere. The Government is bringing in ID cards. New legislation reducing our civil liberties is being introduced so quickly that civil liberties groups hardly have time to express outrage at one new piece of fascist legislation before another is being prepared. Thanks to the threats from the authorities and the ever present armed guards travel has become a nightmare. Tourists and businessmen have their personal toiletries confiscated lest they be used as weapons.

The Government keeps detailed records of every move we make. They have introduced new legislation which has so damaged our personal security that identity theft is now one of the fastest growing types of crime. Personal privacy for law abiding citizens is now just a memory. The law enforcement agencies have given up protecting the public (the task for which they are paid) and now spend most of their time persecuting motorists (an easy target and a ready source of income).

The warmongers who have taken Britain into an unending, illegal and immoral war regard anyone who opposes them as a terrorist sympathiser. Honesty and integrity no longer exist within the political or financial establishments. Your Government wants you to be afraid and silent, and to hand over all your money without asking any questions.

The Government no longer defends British citizens who have been arrested abroad. Our courts now officially sanction the torture of suspects, who are considered guilty until proven innocent.

Everything they do is secret. Nothing we do is secret. They can arrest us and confiscate our property on the flimsiest of excuses. If you contribute money to an organisation which is branded `terrorist' then your belongings can be confiscated. The danger here lies in the fact that it is the Government which decides which organisations should be described as `terrorist' and they have, for example, long ago decided that animal rights campaigners are terrorists. So, for example, if you protest about vivisection or hunting then you are a terrorist.

If you protest about what is happening you are likely to find yourself in a secret court, condemned as a terrorist (or terrorist sympathiser - which is, these days, regarded as much the same thing) and liable to find yourself imprisoned indefinitely.

The punishments for political crimes, crimes against the State, are now far greater than the punishments for crimes against individuals or against property.


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When defectors left the USSR in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s the three words they most commonly used to complain about the Soviet regime were: corruption, cynicism and nepotism. I cannot think of three words which sum up Blair's regime more accurately.

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You may think that, as an innocent and law abiding citizen, you have nothing to fear. You are wrong. In a fascist world where the authorities have all the power and individuals have no rights we are all vulnerable. And, make no mistake about it, we are living in a fascist country.

The police, the authorities, the bureaucrats and the politicians are, of course, all exempt from criticism and stand outside the law. Now that we are at permanent war just about everything the authorities do is legal. All they have to do is claim that whatever they did was done in the name of `national security'.

The state is now everything. The individual is nothing. That is pure fascism.

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I have to warn you, dear reader, that in order to protect yourself and your family you should be very careful when openly criticising the Government or any of its actions.

But we have to do something to make our voices heard and to prove that we cannot be bullied, frightened and intimidated into submission.

We can no longer take our freedom for granted. We have to fight for the privilege of being left alone. And we can make a difference, you and I.

So dust off your principles, drag your dreams out of the attic and scream and shout and let the bastards know that you care and that you will not let them win.

If you are not doing what is right then what you are doing is wrong.

Do not allow anyone to force you to compromise on your integrity: once you compromise you do not have any integrity.

Every night, when you go to bed, ask yourself this simple question: `What have I done today to make the world a better place?'

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On the following pages I have described some of the practical ways in which I believe that we can improve our world and take back control of our country. The suggestions which follow will, I believe, enable us to combat the various forces which have led to the problems we now face.

Our country doesn't love us any more. But we still love it. And we want it back.

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None of the three leading political parties will take the action we need. None of them will loosen the ties holding us to Europe. New Labour, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats all seem convinced that Britain cannot exist without being a member of the European Union. (Curiously, the same three main parties also believe that Britain must remain America's panting lapdog and so all three parties supported the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq).

Britain needs to get rid of its existing three-party political system and start again - from scratch.

The big three parties don't exist to protect Britain, or to defend or protect the voters. The big three political parties in Britain exist to defend themselves.

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In many British elections there is a less than 50% turnout.

In 1997, New Labour got a massive landslide victory with less than 50% of the popular vote. Since only about two thirds of the electorate bothered to vote, Blair received the support of around one third of the electors. That was enough to give him a `landslide'. So, in the year when Tony Blair got an overwhelming, unprecedented majority in the House of Commons, two thirds of the British people either didn't vote for him or didn't want him as Prime Minister.

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In America, when George W. Bush won a two horse race to become president he received just 25% of the possibly available votes and became president because five out of nine supreme court justices (mostly appointed by his father) chose to give the presidency to him.

Millions have given up voting in political elections because they don't think their vote is going to make any difference. There are, they believe, three reasons for this.

First, modern politicians lie. They regard campaign promises and manifesto pledges as gimmicks to win elections.

Second, there is no significant difference between the main parties.

Third, once they get into power politicians don't take any notice of the wishes of the people. They turn into dictators.

The turnout at forthcoming elections will, I suspect, be an all-time low.

How can citizens be expected to have respect for a Government which starts illegal wars? What is the point in voting when the Government starts a war against the wishes of the people?

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People don't vote in political elections because they don't think there is any point. They don't like politicians.

The problem is that politics has become a career. Politics has become something people no longer choose to do because it is a way to give something to society, or a way to correct injustices.

People enter politics because it offers a good way to earn a living and get on in the world. Which one of today's raggle taggle bunch could possibly be described as a `Statesman' in the mould of Disraeli or Churchill? Today's average MP has no skills and no job experience.

It is, therefore, perhaps not surprising that most MPs think solely of their careers and allow themselves to be treated as voting lobby fodder.

Our world is run by people who may be formally educated but who have never learned to question what they have been told and have no valid life experience with which to create judgements. The average citizen has less respect for politicians than any other group other than lawyers. (Is it merely a coincidence that most politicians were trained as lawyers?)

Today's politicians are in it for the money and the glory rather than because they want to serve the people.

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It is a myth that we have a three-party system. We don't even have a two-party system. The political parties we have got are all parts of the same party; they all share the same basic beliefs.

Politics today is primarily about politicians rather than voters. The only people who get anything out of elections are the politicians, and people don't vote because the politicians aren't worth voting for.

Very few sensitive, thoughtful, caring individuals go into politics these days. Politicians are expected to lie, and decent people don't become politicians because they just don't want to expose themselves and their families to the usual public ridicule and humiliation. Today, the only people who go into politics are the pompous, thick-skinned, greedy, self-centred people who see politics as a way to improve themselves. In the end, the people who run the country are the very people who should NOT be leading the country.

We need leaders who care but instead of caring people we end up with people whose primary concern is not the good of the nation, or the welfare of the people, but simple self-preservation and self-aggrandisement.

It is hardly surprising that there is plenty of fraud in modern politics but very little genuine passion.

Those politicians who are led by an ideology (and there are few enough of those) use their ideology as an excuse to further their control, rather than to improve the state of the world they are supposed to be managing.

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Elections are a sham. There are no real choices. It is always the government who wins, and never the people. All our major political parties are fundamentally fascist; they want to tyrannise us and impose their beliefs on us. Instead of wanting to create a free and liberated society where we can all get on with our lives they want to expand their control over our lives and they want to interfere in every aspect of everything we do. All today's political parties want to violate our individual rights and to increase the rights of government. Those views are fundamentally fascist.

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Think of any leading politician. Now imagine him transplanted into another political party. It isn't difficult is it?

There is nothing much to help us distinguish between the three main parties; they have much the same policies and the same arrogance, they display the same indifference to the voters and they make the same mistakes. They share the same taste for power (for its own sake rather than for what it can be used to achieve) and the same denial of reality.

People don't vote in European, parliamentary or local government elections because there doesn't seem much point. There isn't any significant difference between the parties. Politicians don't take any notice of what the voters want. And they don't keep their promises. Politicians are so focused on the next election that they never think of the next generation.

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But although people often don't bother about voting in political elections, people still love voting when they think it is worthwhile and when they think their vote will make a difference. They do it all the time. They vote in their millions to subject minor celebrities to great indignities in the television programme I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here. They vote for their favourites in Pop Idol. They vote to have obnoxious players thrown out of the Big Brother house. In these `elections' people actually pay to cast their vote. In many areas of the country more English people voted for candidates in the Big Brother house than voted in the last Parliamentary elections.

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We must take back the political power which is rightfully ours. We have to take back power from the crooks and the crooked institutions which now rule our lives.

We have to take back power from the weak, spineless and unthinking politicians who serve those institutions with such uncritical faithfulness.

The people are now the only force of opposition; the only voice for freedom and justice is the voice on the streets.

What Britain really needs is a House of Commons made up of independent men and women who would keep their promises, who would stick to their manifestos and who would vote honestly and decently according to their consciences.

The biggest problem we have at the moment is that our destiny, our welfare and our history are all in the hands of political parties which have their own vested interests to pursue. Political parties need to grow and thrive in order to survive.

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Charities now commonly exist not to fight for the cause which led to their foundation but to provide salaries, perks and pensions for their employees. If you doubt this just look at the accounts for any successful, professional charity. The chances are that between 50% and 75% of the gross income goes towards paying the organisation's costs; in other words the organisation exists largely to sustain itself.

Political parties are much the same; they exist to provide comfortable employment for the paid employees, social support groups for voluntary workers (who usually spend most of their time concerned with constitutional minutiae and fighting one another for power within the organisation) and power, money and status for the party's political representatives: the MPs and the councillors. Political parties exist to win seats and to win elections. That is all they exist for.

The interests of the modern political party no longer match the original aims of the founders; they are far removed from the original concerns and passions which led to their foundation.

The New Labour party doesn't really care about the British people or about Britain. The New Labour Party doesn't care whether England exists or disappears; it doesn't care about Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland; it doesn't care about the NHS, the railways or the security of old people in Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds.

The New Labour party is an organisation and organisations don't have feelings, passions or purposes. Organisations exist only to exist. And as with so many organisations, the New Labour Party is run for the benefit of the people who run it: the managers, the office staff and the other employees whose salaries and pensions are paid by it.

The same thing is true of the Conservative Party. And the Liberal Democrat Party. And in the end it will be the same of any large, successful political party.

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Our first step to freedom must be to free ourselves of the `party system' and return to the days when our Parliament consisted of honest, caring individuals whose only concern is the future safety and welfare of the people they represent - and the country of which they are citizens.

And that would be a real revolution.

It is not the duty of a government to micro-manage people's lives. It is the duty of a government to provide a safe, effective, unobtrusive infrastructure which allows citizens the freedom to do their own thing. Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged and founder of the philosophy of objectivism, declared that the only true purpose of politics is to protect individual rights. And she was right.

It will take some time to get rid of the party system. But once there are a few genuinely independent MPs in Parliament the present dishonest system will start to crumble. How will the party whips respond when a growing number of MPs cannot be bullied or bribed into acting in a particular way? As the number of independent MPs grows so the power of the parties will collapse. Eventually, the independent MPs in the House of Commons will have the majority. They will be able to form a Government themselves. And the parties will be finished. We will have a House of Commons populated by rational, individual MPs who are not driven by absurdities such as political correctness and multiculturalism.

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Time is running out and we must act fast. Our existing political parties are giving away more and more power to America and to the EU. We must act before New Labour (or its successors) have given away everything.

So, here's what we do.

First, ask yourself if you could stand for Parliament - not as a member of any party but as a concerned and caring individual, standing for freedom, justice and truth. Ask yourself two simple questions.

The first question is `Why?'

And the answer to that one is easy.

You should stand for parliament because your country needs you. It needs people who care, who genuinely want to help make the world a better place and who will vote according to their consciences. And since you've read this book and you've read this far I'm confident that you care.

The second question is `Why not?'

Only you can answer that.

If for whatever reason you do not want to stand for parliament yourself then you should make sure that whenever possible you always vote for the independent candidate. If there is no independent candidate, vote for the candidate representing the smallest party. Do not, under any circumstances, vote for a candidate representing one of the main three parties.

We have to break the three-in-one party system which has for so long held a stranglehold over British politics. We must fill Parliament with people who care about nothing but the voters and the country; parliamentary representatives who will think only about the needs and wishes of the voters and the good of the country when they are voting in the House of Commons. We have to vote for representatives who know that if they fail to represent the wishes of the voters, or at least satisfy the voters that they have voted honestly and honourably, then they won't be elected at the next election. Vote not for the party but for the individual. Vote for candidates from small parties. Vote for independents.

Even if it takes time to fill the House of Commons with truly independent MPs it will take much less time to build up the success and power of other, smaller political parties. A House of Commons with members divided among half a dozen parties would be infinitely more independent, representative and responsible to the needs of the nation than a Commons dominated by our current three-in-one party system.

Is it possible for us to regain power over our representatives this way?

Yes.

Is there a choice?

Well, there is always a choice.

If you want things to continue to get worse you can carry on voting for the present corrupt and incompetent system.

Or if you want a better life and a better world then you can vote for genuine change.

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The most powerful form of communication in the world is not the television, the Internet, the radio or the newspaper; it is word of mouth. Talk to your friends. Tell them what you know. Print out this article if you wish and give it to them to read

The second most powerful form of communication is the book. Books are more powerful than television, the Internet, the radio or newspapers because they are more convincing. So, please try to get hold of a copy of the book from which this article was taken. (The book's title is Why Everything Is Goign To Get Worse Before It Gets Better (And What You Can Do About It)).Regard the book as a chain letter - designed to start people thinking. Handing out copies of a book does not expose you to any risk if you do it quietly and in confidence. Give copies to local libraries but do so anonymously. (Bulk copies of this book are available at very low prices from Publishing House.) Alternatively, your local public library should have copies you can borrow.

There are many who believe that when the revolution comes it will come through the computer. After all, a billion people are now walking around with computing devices - computers, telephones and PDAs - which are connected and able to communicate with one another at high speed.

But the authorities can and do control what appears on the Internet. They can and do listen in to telephone conversations and they can and do read your e-mails. They can use satellite technology to pinpoint your position when you make a phone call.

The new revolution won't happen through a billion laptops, mobile telephones and PDAs. It will happen the old-fashioned way: through people reading and talking.

And since the big international publishers have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo (and will not, therefore, publish anything which threatens the stability of their economic superiority) the word will be spread through small, independent publishers operating outside the system.

We at Publishing House intend to continue to do what we can to combat fascism and to fight for freedom, justice, privacy, liberty and independence.

Our weapons are truth, our fraternity and our conviction that our cause is just. Please help us spread the word. This is a battle which is worth fighting. And time is running out.


Extract taken from Why Everything Is Going To Get Worse Before It Gets Better - And What You Can Do About It by Vernon Coleman, published by Blue Books at £15.99. The book is available from the Web shop on this site and from all other good bookshops everywhere.





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