House
of Commons
Political
and Constitutional Reform Committee
“Voter engagement in the UK”
Written
evidence submitted by Gordon J Sheppard (VUK 57)
1. There is only one
major reform necessary; and, that is that Parliament must recognize that the
People of this country in General Elections, 'elect' their representative
to represent them in Parliament; they do not 'elect' a political party;
and that therefore Parliament ought to be, a "People's
Parliament".
2. Sadly, today, the
'People' have hardly any influence at all. Parliament, unlawfully, is wholly
dominated and controlled by the political parties.
3. This wicked
domination and control of the political parties is maintained in parliament by
the political party WHIPS. The WHIPS countermand, overrule and supplant all
rightful influence placed upon Members of Parliament by the Constituents; and,
thereby 'prejudice the people'.
4. "Prejudice of
the People" is wholly outlawed and proscribed by the 'precedent of law'
set out in the "Statute in Force/Bill of Rights 1689/The Said Rights Claimed".
5. This paragraph in
the Bill of Rights 1689, designed and created by the Rights Committee
of the CONVENTION (Parliament) of 1688, was solely designed for the protection
of the People; and, it specifically requires and instructs parliament that when
parliament 'enacts' its SUPREMACY (afforded to parliament by 'Article 9' of
that Bill), or 'enacts' any of the other "Premises" of that Bill;
that parliament should not, 'prejudice the people'.
6. Thereby, whenever
Parliament does 'prejudice the people' the very SUPREMACY of parliament becomes
null and void. Thus determining by 'precedent of law' that the political party
activities of the WHIPS in parliament, is wholly illegal and unlawful, and has
no legal validity at all.
7. The WHIPS in
parliament should therefore be abolished.
8. Every vote taken
in parliament should be a FREE VOTE.
9. Thus, creating a
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
Sooner or later the People of
Great Britain will secure their rightful access to LAW; where it is
possible to test, question, and challenge the 'abuses' and the 'prejudice' of
parliament from within law. Sooner or later the People of this great country
will awake from their 'political' apathy and, the slumbers of the
middle ages, emerging into the bright sunlight of the 21st Century; when they
will destroy the present dominance and control of their 'elected' parliament,
by the political parties. Sooner or later, Britain will create a TRUE
DEMOCRACY.
Sooner or
later Parliament must recognize that at present the People (the 'common people'
of this land have no protection of 'LAW' whatsoever. They have no true
Citizenship recorded in Law; they have no 'written constitution',
or proper 'Bill of Rights'; or access to a "Supreme Court of
Law" where it is possible to test, question, or challenge the abuses and
the prejudice of parliament from within law.
Furthermore, although there is
a 'Reigning Monarch' sitting upon the throne charged with the responsibility
and duty to honour the 'Original Contract' and provide the protection of the
Crown's Subjects; throughout her entire reign, she has miserably failed to
provide any protection at all. Today, the British do not have a 'Reigning
Monarch'; they have a village sub-postmistress franking and rubber-stamping
every piece of paper laid before her by parliament.
LAW today
in Great Britain is looked upon by the elite and the establishment as being
something that only the 'common people' must obey. Whilst, they, abuse and
flout 'LAW' all of the time.
HISTORY:
King James the Second
was removed from the throne by the CONVENTION (Parliament) of 1688 for "Breaking
the Original Contract betwixt King and People". The CONVENTION
determined that he had thereby, 'abdicated the throne'; the throne was declared
"Vacant" and Prince William of Orange was offered the throne. The
CONVENTION, however, did not want the same problems and interference it had to
endure from 'James II' and so therefore the CONVENTION appointed a Rights
Committee to create a Bill that would protect parliament, from this
interference by a King. The Rights Committee therefore knew at the
beginning of their task, that the Bill was only necessary ands required in
order to protect parliament from a King. It was never intended to protect
parliament from the people. And, so the Rights Committee had the
responsibility with any Bill that they created, to protect the people from any
abuse. They had to ensure that the Bill that they created would not be misused
or wrongly interpreted by parliament; and, therefore they created for insertion
within their Bill the overruling paragraph guaranteeing the peoples protection.
Firstly, the Rights
Committee set out a complete list of 'Articles' or 'Rights' that Parliament
claimed from a King; then directly below this list they inserted the paragraph,
"The Said Rights Claimed" and this reads as follows:
“The Said Rights Claimed”:
“And they do Claime Demand and
Insist upon all and singular The Premises as their undoubted Rights and
Liberties and that noe Declarations Judgements Doeings or Proceedings to the
Prejudice of the People, in any of the said Premises, ought in any wise to be
drawne hereafter, into Consequence or Example”
Note: Everyone assumes that the
most important feature of the "Glorious Revolution" and the
"Bill of Rights 1689" is that it provides parliament with its
SUPREMACY and its protection from a King. But this is not the most important
feature at all; the true most important feature of all of this is, that it
provided the PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE from within law. It specifically
determines that parliament may have its SUPREMACY but only on the conditions as
determined by the "Said Rights Claimed".
The most interesting feature of
all of this is that the "Said Rights Claimed" restricts
parliament from 'amending' or even 'abolishing' the Bill of Rights 1689.
Because, in order for parliament to try to do either; actually creates,
'prejudice of the people'. Parliament is thereby prevented from amending or
abolishing the Bill on two counts: firstly, because it breaks the Law;
secondly, the people have their protection afforded by "The Said Rights
Claimed". They will never permit parliament taking that protection away.
