Wednesday 16 June 2010

That Democracy Problem

Look. We either abide by democracy, or we don't.

BNP leader invited to meet Queen at Buckingham Palace garden party

A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace confirmed that an invitation had been issued this year. She said that Mr Griffin was eligible to nominate himself and the Palace would not discriminate against democratically elected representatives.
Quite rightly too. It's that democracy thing, you see.

Searchlight, the organisation which campaigns against the BNP, said it was “bizarre” that Mr Griffin had received an invitation when his party had been soundly rejected by voters at the general election.
Actually, it would be 'bizarre' if one of two MEPs, representing a party which garnered almost a million votes in June last year, was denied an invitation to which he is entitled under the current rules. Especially at the behest of Searchlight, an organisation for whom no-one has ever voted.

Listen guys, yes the BNP are misdirected and deeply unpleasant, but it's kind of important that we stick to the etiquette of our electoral system. Anything else would appear, well, a bit like a dictatorship, really. Or, even worse, the EU.

Sometimes such annoying inconveniences are thrown up. Life tends to do that. Think 13 years of authoritarian Labour government, for example.

And with that, I suppose I say farewell to the Times as a linkable source.


5 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Whereby we learn yet again that some are more equal than others.

Captain Ranty said...

I agree with you.

My little brain went off at a tangent when I read this:

"the BNP are misdirected and deeply unpleasant"

I also read "the Conservatives are misdirected and deeply unpleasant"

And:

"the Labour Party are misdirected and deeply unpleasant"

And:

"the LibDems are misdirected and deeply unpleasant"

Let's not forget to tar them all with the same brush. They do it to us every single day.

CR.

Dick Puddlecote said...

MW: Yes, lefties do tend to forget that they tend to ridicule themselves by walking into longstanding stereotypical behaviour sometimes.

CR: Yes, they're increasingly as bad as each other. It's just a matter of who raised the bar.

Sam Duncan said...

Mark, that's hilarious.

There's something deliciously ironic in the Europarliament - the only vaguely democratic fig leaf that godforsaken Union has - discriminating against democratically elected representatives while the Queen refuses to.

Oh, and let's not forget (by which I mean, of course, the Lefties better not bloody forget, 'cos I know what they're thinking) that the BNP is republican. Irony upon irony.

JuliaM said...

"Searchlight, the organisation which campaigns against the BNP, said it was “bizarre” that Mr Griffin had received an invitation when his party had been soundly rejected by voters at the general election."

Given that we have a (mostly) three-party system - yes, I'm being generous to the Lib Dems - have they ever said how 'bizarre' it was that the other two parties were allowed to attend?

No? Thought not.