2010. The year the UK surrendered its democratic values. Harsh words? Perhaps? Yet most people who have witnessed the way through which the Digital Economy Bill was rushed through parliament without proper scrutiny and debate will probably agree. An unelected peer (Peter Mandelson) was the one who introduced the Bill (to claims that it was written by the big media corporations), over 20,000 people emailed their MP’s to demand a debate reflective of the size and scope of the bill and only 40 MP’s turned up to discuss it at its second reading. Hardly due democratic process, I’m sure even the staunchest
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Just a little post on how Gordon Brown is a bit of a tool. In this video below he turns his back on the policeman’s out-stretched hand despite watching Obama shake hands with him.  Just goes to show that Gordon Brown in a bit of a bumbling politician sometimes in my opinion. While it may have been a genuine case of him just not seeing Mr Brown should be trying his best not to be shown up by a politician who managed to sweep to power through massive popularity rather than becoming the leader of the country after someone else
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