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Letters to the press - The Observer
FB supports the Gang of Four and the new Social Democratic
Party
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The Observer, 5 Apr 1981
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Doc. No. 1981.022 OBS001L |
I support the Social Democratic Party for one basic
reason.
We voters sit back and require our politicians to
produce all the answers. We have been
taught to do so by the writings of political commentators. But these are the false
decretals of democracy. Our induced attitude is the reverse of democratic. Democracy
is government by the people. We have no right to require competing politicians to
woo us with the promise that their party has all the answers. We have to provide the
answers
ourselves.
The SDP has hit on the truth. Policy is to be made
by every member of the party. When the party is elected to power, policy will in effect
be made by every elector.
And it
is the electors, not only the politicians, who will bear the responsibility if the
policy fails. Let us stop shuffling off our responsibility on others. A nation
gets the Government
it deserves.
Letter from FB published in The Observer on 5 Apr
1981
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