We, the voting populace have been duped. I am sure this is not new, but it is politicians being elected on the basis of false promises, and making a mockery of a fair and reasonable expectation of basic honesty and integrity. They should all stand down. They do not represent us, the electorate, they represent themselves. They should ALL fall upon their swords.

Also, the very sudden slowing from 10,000/day to 1000/day at a time of increased coverage, and after appearing on “Have I got news for you”, is very strange.

One person had to sign up 15 times to get 1 confirmation email, and did finally appear on the list, but many would give up much sooner.

Also, note SPAM names are removed from my list (as they should be) quite quickly, but are not being removed from the lists for Mr Brown. I guess this is to make those lists look longer than they really are. However, the SPAM comments on those surely make things even worse for Mr Brown.

Or were they? People tend to forget that although the Lord Protector ruled wisely, and generously, he was also just another dictator.

We have no need of Oliver’s option, because we have still the ultimate in weaponry, the Ballot Box.

Mind you, the range of legal artillery available to ZaNULabour these days is a great deal heavier that the cannon of the Roundhead’s days.

Will the Tories be repealing, amongst other anti-democratic legislation, the Civil Contingencies Act, which gives a modern Prime Minister, Labour or Tory, draconian powers far greater than those available to old ‘Nollie?

Because, apparently, the members of the Rump were refusing to consider a dissolution and a fresh election, and instead that morning they were debating whether to prolong their existence indefinitely, and, allegedly, they were even discussing whether to choose new members themselves.

It wasn’t what he wanted to have to do; in fact four years earlier, in the aftermath of Pride’s Purge, he argued against setting a term for Parliament, saying that it would be “honourable and convenient” for the Commons to decide it for themselves.

And only the day before, leading members of the Rump had left him with the impression that they would agree to a dissolution.

Luckily, we won’t have to send troops to the Commons to bring about a dissolution of the present Parliament; but, unluckily, there’s no way that we can force Brown to exercise the Royal Prerogative and call a fresh election before June 3rd 2010.

We could do, if there was a legal mechanism empowering constituents to recall their MP, in which case a succession of by-elections could quickly destroy his majority in the Commons.

But none of the main parties would ever contemplate introducing a system which would leave “their” MPs vulnerable to dismissal by constituents at any time the latter chose, within certain limits.

That would be returning power to the people; and power which the people can exercise is necessarily power taken back from the anti-democratic oligarchs who control the main political parties; and they will never, ever, allow that, unless they seriously fear an imminent violent revolution.

The last thing we need is another Winston Churchill!

It is not just him who should be going, it’s the whole bunch of this ‘factious crew, and enemies to all good government’. If not we are going to be saddled with a second unelected Labour Prime Minister.