Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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"War is when your government tell you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself."
Of course, while democracy is very far from perfect, its' major advantages include the fact that when people decide, rightly or wrongly, that they want a different government, they don't have to have a revolution to get one.
Of course, a different government doesn't always mean a better government under any system, but at least you have not had to kill lots of people to reah that conclusion.
sure we can select another dictator every five years, but do we have democracy is a different question isn't it.
Democracy stems from the Greek Demos Kratos meaning people power. Thus with out the people there is no power. this means on important decisions like the budget, like if we should bail out the banks or not, or the national policy on something that will affect a lot of people can only be decided by the vote of the majority of the people on that one particular issue.
this is why the country needs "the Harrogate agenda"