Date Posted: 09:06:25 01/03/11 Mon
Subject: 2014 UK Constitution Change - John Cleese Video

Happy to find John Cleese making lots of good points.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSUKMa1cYHk

Please listen to our Houses of Commons sometime - Have you ever heard the background crying and constant interruption? Whoever speaks must shout.

If I organised my head like that I would be crazy - no business or family could be organised on such a basis - it would fail - it would destroy itself .... If kids acted like this 50 yrs ago - we would severly reprimand them ... that children today do act like this in school rooms can hardly be punished when our leaders act in the same way.

Where does it come from ... is it all a perverse extension Oxford Cambridge debating society methods and tactics?

England (1600, pre-commonwealth) was one of the first countries to have some sort of Parliament. I dont know much about history, but just wonder if this was all because of HenryVIII wanting a divorce and then cutting off from Rome allowed the reformation and free thinking. And we carried the new spirit of freedom and education to glory with old school discipline and steadfast decision ... wonderful for the 16th century ... and by the 19th the British Commonwealth covered 2/3rds of the world.

But things have become more complex in the modern world and it is not just a choice anymore of decisively doing something OR not doing it. I suspect our old fashioned form of democracy is simply too stiff, not flexible enough, not adaptable enough to compete in the modern competitive world ...

PLEASE BRITAIN... catch up ---. we are slipping behind the times --- with proud old ideas ... (when I think about it now, our government seems to be set-up rather similar to a game of cricket ...)

In these modern times proud old fashioned Britain swings from one extreem to the other simply because there are only (really) two strong parties whos main purpose is to contradict each other ... ("tweedledum and tweedledee agreed to have a battle"). --- A modern proportional representation democracy achieves no ideals (possibly?) - but moderate workable ideas at the compromising stage ...

... COMPROMISE:

It must be clearly stated that : ... from the political standpoint, the individual must be allowed to be a free thinking individual with every right to their own thoughts and wishes. So in this respect compromise is a dirty word

so, Cleese speaks purely on a social level in the bigger society when he says "Compromise is not a dirty word -.. it means two people who disagree to start with, come to an agreement - what's healthier than that?" - For society, to organise any 2 or more free thinking individuals, we desperately need compromise.

It boils down to - if I'm on holiday alone - I do what I want - but if I'm with the wife I do what she wants, and get sex afterwards.

NOTE so the vote happened early - without preparation in 2011 - and we remained true to tradition :-(

So Britain is voting in 2014 and this is the biggest chance most of us will ever have in our life times, to make a difference for the future - are we going to remain true to our tradition? or are we going to change the constitution and move forward, with the rest of the moving world?

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(if you like this - please print it on pretty coloured paper and leave it in busses, trains, doctors waiting rooms, go to your local newsagents and smuggle a sheet into every Sun and Mirror. thank you robinsm)
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