Pandora's Box

Two Very Important Questions: Pandora’s Box

If Johnson succeeds in by-passing Parliament and getting a no-deal Brexit, and if Corbyn wins the next general election and wants to pass extreme socialist legislation unlikely to get through Parliament, why shouldn’t he use the same mechanism? Rationally, what’s the objection?

Secondly, if Parliament can be by-passed in this way, how effective is Parliament as the bastion of British democracy? Read Orwell before sending answers on a postcard.

Conspiracy Theory

Everyone loves a conspiracy theory so why not? When we think of solidarity and collective protection we typically think of unions and cooperatives, the less privileged trying to protect themselves from more powerful individual people or organisations. But suppose some of those more powerful individuals and organisations decide to themselves form a collective? Individually they don’t need to because they are rich and powerful and can do more or less what they want. But suppose they have higher ambitions; to control a large part of the world in their favour? What is to stop them if they so choose? They would need to control the media but already mostly do. Most people read only one newspaper or watch only one news channel so the main media need be the only targets. Their only problem is the Internet. It has been designed so that it cannot easily be controlled but it holds limitless information to be used and that can be obtained at a price. And who can best afford that price? So at least if they cannot control it they can make good use of it to further their purposes. Who or what can counter this?

Answers on a postcard again (after having read your Orwell).