Politics is broken. It can no longer remain the same.
Elected representatives have demonstrated repeatedly that they cannot be trusted to respect the principles that underpin our democracy. For what happens next, they have only themselves and their parties to blame.
Until the 2010 creation of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, the safety valve that prevented trouble of the kind we are now experiencing was the ability of any and all prime ministers to call for a General Election, at any time and without two thirds of Parliament in support.
It was respectfully used at times when a government had no way to continue and simply didn’t have the number of votes necessary in Parliament to provide it with majority support.
Whilst opposition after opposition would have grabbed the chance of a General Election being gifted to them at any time, this Remain-majority of a quasi-Government has refused to have one deliberately by choice.
By doing so, they have demonstrated a total disregard, for our centuries-old constitution. A system of government that has never before seen such open and contemptuous forms of abuse.
Their priority and aim has been to manipulate the system to deliver what they want without any form of legitimacy or mandate.
What is worse, their plans run completely contrary to the will of the People – given to them legitimately as a direct and clear instruction in a democratic vote.
None of the political class that currently sits within our Parliament can walk away from this complete mess and claim they had nothing to do with it, the years of abuse that prepared the ground for it, or that it was always out of their control.
There is a rot at the base of British politics now and the real problem for us all is the question of how it can be replaced.
We cannot wait for a new party to be established that will have the policies and reach that will make it a credible alternative to what we have as the current line up or choice.
The current system is a monopoly of three at best and is totally rigged at worst.
But without a new political party that is a real left-right/Leave-Remain all-view-considered movement too, we are faced with the prospect of having to elect MPs at the coming General Election who have come to Parliament through the very same Party Political system that gave us the people that have broken our democracy.
This system of political parties only works to further itself and is as such fundamentally flawed.
The truly concerning thing for us all right now is that the stupidity that we are witnessing in Parliament may not have as yet come to its end.
The MPs we have Today are either so sure of their own position or confident that they can do what they like and that Public concern will simply then fade away, that it has become clear that they are now capable of doing absolutely anything when it comes to getting their own way.
This travesty must be stopped. What they have already done has set a dangerous precedent. Those politicians who follow them in future without there being the meaningful change required will simply approach future policies just the same.
We must find a way to create and establish a fixed and robust constitution that covers all aspects of the way this Country is governed.
We must set proper, considered rules covering how we allow our MPs to be appointed as candidates and then become elected.
Otherwise we must now accept that Parliamentary democracy in this country is no longer fit for purpose and has come to its end and that the time has come to find another way.
One way or another, change is coming and it’s probably going to come very soon indeed.
The answer may not be anything anything we have already seen. And it won’t be a question of if or when.
It will simply be a question of who.
The future of this Country will not be dictated by a Squatter Parliament filled with cuckoos rather than genuine MPs. Our future will be decided by the British People and implemented by representation that we can actually trust.
Adam Tugwell 