Another England Is Possible

                                           

Republican Labour

 

“If you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you dont’t live in a democratic system.”

Tony Benn



                                           

			

			

				
				
				
				
			

				
				
			

				
				
				
				
				
				
				

				

				
				
				
				
				

				
				
				
				
				

					

					

						
The Crown

						
Our political process is based on a system of privilege, expressed in the power of the crown prerogative which is symbolised and represented in the unelected, hereditary monarchy.

					

				

			

			

				
				
				
				
				

				
				
				
				
				

					

					

						
Parliament

						
The elected representatives of our ‘democracy’ swear allegiance in the first instance not to the people who elected them, but to the crown. The reigning monarch as representative and guarantor of crown prerogative is our unelected, enduring head of state.

					

				

			

			

				
				
				
				
				

				
				
				
				
				

					

					

						
Government

						
The Executive branch of our ‘democracy’ represents the crown and its enduring privilege, power, and wealth through a formal process of crown patronage. The government of the day, is not the government of the people, but Her Majesty’s government, and the opposition is Her Majesty’s loyal opposition

					

				

			

			

				
				
				
				
				

				
				
				
				
				

					

					

						
The People

						
The people are not sovereign, as there is only one sovereign which is the monarch vested with the power of the crown. The people are therefore not citizens, but subjects of the crown.  For the people to be sovereign the prerogative of the crown and its hereditary monarchy must be abolished in favour of a fully representative republican and socialist democracy.

					

				

			

			

				
				
				
				
			

				

				
				
				
				
				

				

					

				
				
				

					

						



						

							

					
Five Pillars of Democracy
    

  1. What power have you got?
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  2. Where did you get it from?
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  3. In whose interest do you exercise it?
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  4. To whom are you accountable?
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  5. How can we get rid of you?
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The Pillar of the Crown Underlying Our Lack of Democracy
Having to swear allegiance to the crown as sovereign denies the sovereignty of the people and diminishes parliament as repre-sentative of the will of the people.