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Our democracy is being overthrown by the EU's Hideous Strength
2019-09-16
h/t Instapundit
[Telegraph] It’s not about Brexit any more, at least not primarily. It’s about whether we remain a democracy in the fullest sense. Our system depends on unwritten conventions and precedents. We expect winners to show restraint and losers to show consent. We expect our officials ‐ including judges, civil servants and, not least, the Commons Speaker ‐ to be impartial. We expect the electorate to be the final umpire.

All these norms are coming under pressure as the campaign to reverse Brexit intensifies. The EU, as well as being undemocratic in itself, tends to degrade the internal democracy of its member nations.

Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#5  Oh man!
Now Ah'm going to have to read that again.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-09-16 12:24  

#4  The referendum is now being apologized for, by the likes of Cameron. The idea being aired is - it should never have been given to the people to decide in the first place. With Corby saying it should be annulled in light of the 'long term interests' of the UK.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-16 11:35  

#3  Oh, that democracy! I thought it was about the real democracy.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-09-16 11:27  

#2  Don't like how the vote turned out? Just call for another vote!
Posted by: jpal   2019-09-16 10:31  

#1  That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3) by C.S.Lewis

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns.

The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-09-16 06:58  

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