The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Sunday, May 21, 2006
1st Anniversary of the Tipping Point
Andrew Coyne says it was a week where politicians went about trashing parliament. I agree with him. But I would submit that it was a mild trashing compared to what we witnessed with Paul Martin one year ago, who wilfully went about suspending Canadian parliamentary democracy for what surely were two of the most disgraceful weeks of Parliament's history. Walsingham's "seminal" post, The Tipping Point (at least that's how one columnist described it in the Ottawa Citizen), summed it up brilliantly:
So you want trashing parliament? There, that's trashing parliament. Nothing like a little T.P. in May. Walsingham's only mistake was to refer to this T.P. as a tipping point, since things have tipped back nicely over the past year. In hindsight, trashing parliament would have perhaps been a much better title.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 11:51 p.m. | LINKS |
Andrew Coyne says it was a week where politicians went about trashing parliament. I agree with him. But I would submit that it was a mild trashing compared to what we witnessed with Paul Martin one year ago, who wilfully went about suspending Canadian parliamentary democracy for what surely were two of the most disgraceful weeks of Parliament's history. Walsingham's "seminal" post, The Tipping Point (at least that's how one columnist described it in the Ottawa Citizen), summed it up brilliantly:
We have witnessed a parliamentary government of the British Crown and tradition, faced with a protracted and clear demonstration of a loss of majority confidence, refuse to adhere to the most fundamental tenets of responsible government by submitting itself to an immediate and declared confidence vote. We have watched that government instead suspend democracy until its bribes and enticements to the characterless could bear fruit. We have watched a blonde Judas cross the floor, oblivious of how ephemeral her new friendships will prove; casting the will of her constituents - and with it, the core mechanism by which the will of the people is translated into the reality of parliamentary power - into the dust; for obvious, crass and fleeting personal gain. And we have watched the chief architect of this farce declare, with a straight face, that he had secured the renewed confidence of the House and assured the future of a united Canada.
As this tragedy concluded, I listened to some around me, here in Ontario, actually declare their relief that they would not soon have to make another trip to the ballot box. And in that moment, I reached my tipping point. I realized that a people unprepared to devote a single hour – without sweat, cost or blood – to the enforcement of democracy, to the assurance that they might be governed by decent and responsible people of their actual choice; that a people too selfish and shameless to care whether their countrymen felt respected and represented under the common roof; that a people too brain-dead to understand how deeply their traditions of democracy have been compromised, and how dangerous a precedent has just been set - were not worthy of my allegiance.
So you want trashing parliament? There, that's trashing parliament. Nothing like a little T.P. in May. Walsingham's only mistake was to refer to this T.P. as a tipping point, since things have tipped back nicely over the past year. In hindsight, trashing parliament would have perhaps been a much better title.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 11:51 p.m. | LINKS |
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