BY THE EDITOR
Sir Roger Scruton famously said that the fashion for government by petition is out of step with representative democracy in which representatives are not elected to relay the opinions of their constituents but to represent their interests. Once, on a BBC radio show, he opined that, “The common good, rather than mass sentiment, should be the source of law, and the common good may be hard to discover and easily obscured by crowd emotions.”
With petitions like ‘Ban Driven Grouse Shooting’ floating around – skewed by an army of petition-filling grannies encouraged by the likes of the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) and other animal rights loons – one should be suspicious of online petitions to the government.
“Make it compulsory for train conductors to say ‘all aboard’ before people get on” was worth a crack but goes to show petitioning tends to be a space dominated by those stuck at home who stroll around their dwellings all day in their undies.
But the petition that is currently sweeping the nation – To Call a General Election – is one of those petitions that has caught the national mood. It has, at time of writing, almost reached a whopping 2 million signatures. One cannot fake 2 million signatures. It is representative alright. At this rate it will surpass the number of people who voted Labour in the July General Election.
No doubt, many of those who are signing the petition were conned by Starmer and Reeves into voting Labour and feel they now want a refund.
There has not been such national unity since that night when we won all those golds at the 2012 Olympics – Brits from all quarters absolutely despise this Labour government and would be delighted if they slung their hook.
Never before have we seen such a bunch of lying incompetents ‘in charge’. The disdain and cloth ears they are showing the electorate is a new experience for voters. Beady-eyed Starmer and Moon-landing Reeves have been exposed as nasty, shabby and bitter trots who care more about their rancid ideology than they do about other Brits or the truth.
This petition is different.
It warms the cockles of our heart.
The whole nation is clamouring:
“Get out of here you Britain-hating twats”.
If you’ve not done so already, You can sign The Great Petition here.
Dominic Wightman is the Editor of Country Squire Magazine and the author of Dear Townies, Arcadia and Truth among other books including ‘Conservatism’ which publishes later this month.