Home page Conservative & Labour party members, guilt through association The institutional labyrinth The great danger to becoming a member of something like a political party is that one has to be certain that one has faith in the character of those who represent the party. In reality, like any collective, politcal parties are enormous labyrinths which speak in the name of "membership" but a core group use the platform, thus-gained, to follow their own instincts and interests in an attempt to gain power. The greater corruption of political parties comes from the influence of unelected party officials over elected members of parliament. Better leaders On the most important issue of concern to the people of Britain only Sir Menzies Campbell and Alex Salmond provided a consistent leadership based upon a comprehensive moral and ethical approach to humanity and which is now recognised to represent the will of the people. It is therefore quite difficult to predict what Members of Parliament, who are members of any particular political party, will do when in power. There is of course a list of election manifesto objectives which often relate mutually contradictory actions under the banner of something calling itself political philosophy. The main danger is that largely without any basis in reflecting any will of the people, MPs will feel free to follow what their party dictates on matters which were never voted upon in a general election. Because of the party whip system it is completely disingenuous for MPs to demand, in the name of democracy, that decisions to go to war should be brought before Parliament. This is because the MP's vote will not reflect the views of their constituencies but rather the party line. This has resulted, in the case of Afghanistan and Iraq in the Conservatives and the Labour party MPs supporting warfare which has led to the murder of in excess of 400,000 people. This is in addition to an equivalent number of children murdered as a result of th UN oil for food fiasco. Whereas it would be odd to have people joining the Conservative or Labour party because they want to support the murder of innocents, one has to question why, after all, is anyone a member of these two monstrous organizations. These party machines have acted to support murder on the basis of the flimsiest of justification, or rather, no justification at all. Political parties have no future in the United Kingdom simply because they have an unrepresentative miniscule membership and have demonstrated their capacity to take decisions which have wreaked havoc in the international domain. This has been achieved because the British voting system affords them absolute power on the basis of a minority of electorate support. Unless people in Britain feel that it is in their interest to join a faction which should dictate to the majority in such a potentially distruptive fashion, then it is quite evident that they should no longer contemplate joining a political party; those who are members should leave. Level heads Without moving from the conclusion that political parties have no future, there are at least two factions whose organizations are less labyrinthal, they are not yet out of control and whose more transparent structure gave rise to a consistent and rational position against committing Britain to supporting a murderous spree in Iraq. These are the factions headed by Sir Menzies Campbell in the UK Parliament (Liberal Democrats) and Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party). These two individuals voiced clear messages of dissent against a background of baying of other-party sycophants in a disgracefully distorted and unrepresentative assembly, Parliament, calling for murder. These individuals were not swayed by the so-called evidence presented by Tony Blair in amateurly produced weak and intellectually incompetent dossiers. They did not believe, as most others did, when Tony Blair justified action almost entirely on the basis unsubstatiated facts which "he believed" to be true. It is shocking that the majority of MPs from the main parties, were swayed by this demonstration of squalid irresponsibility. This reflected badly in the morals, ethics, humanity and common sense of the MPs who supported the war in the degree to which they were oblivious of the best interests of the electorate. One has to ask, where was the will of the people at that time? Well, as the campaign for murder has progressed the people of Britain have begun to realise the incompetence and futility of the whole venture and the majority now express the very same views as were expressed by Sir Menzies Campbell and Alex Salmond such a long time ago. It is not political parties which matter, after all they are now so difficult to manage and control. What matters is having sensible and good leaders who besides having intelligence have the integrity to tell it like it is in the face of caterwauling from the many weak, ethical and moral cowards which pass for members of the two main political parties. Members of the Conservative and Labour parties should be deeply concerned at this shameful passage in British affairs and can at least avoid guilt through association by leaving these political parties.