It's not all right, Jack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1483049,00.html
Labour's boot boys are back with a vengeance, and electoral reform
looks as remote a possibility as ever
Polly Toynbee
Friday May 13, 2005
The Guardian
The election over, that fleeting panic in the eye of power has
vanished. The iron heel stamps down again. New faces fill empty spaces
where a battalion of fallen MPs once sat, and the arbitrary brutality
of a reshuffle reminds the ranks who wears the steel toecaps of power.
But in one vast Commons committee room, shortly after the prime
minister had addressed his troops on Wednesday night, a great surge of
hundreds packed in to protest at such tyrannical abuse of democracy.
How did the prime minister gain such power with a mandate of just 22%
of the electorate, the lowest since the Great Reform Act of 1832? They
were hanging from window ledges, jam-packed against the walls,
squatting in rows behind the platform: "Never seen a public meeting
like it in the house!" declared Lord Lipsey, chairing the
make-votes-count meeting. Peter Tatchell called for a new
Chartist-style uprising. An orotund Tory in pinstripes boomed out that
he never expected to see the day when he would stand shoulder to
shoulder with Tatchell and cry revolution. No taxation without
representation!
Polly Toynbee
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No taxation without representation
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Electoral reform
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