"What is to be done?"

This referendum was different from the previous ones because it was in fact a “Veto” referendum on a ‘law’ ‘approved’ by ‘parliament’.

To carry out the instruction from the people all that is needed is to reverse out the Bradford changes at once and with a minimum of fuss. All that ‘parliament’ needs to do is to rubber-stamp the decision taken by the people of New Zealand.

The government reversed out the changes in the NZ honours system without any difficulty, and that was at their own whim, not by any command from the people.

So why won’t our politicians obey us? Why do they kow-tow instead to the orders of a bunch of UN bureaucrats appointed by an assortment of very unsavoury regimes?

I think the reason is simple: they cannot stomach the idea that they should obey the orders of the people. Look around the world; is there any state that has a democratic constitution like that of Switzerland? No, there isn’t, despite that model democracy having shone its beacon for 150 years. And you can see why! The political classes of all states are united in one simple thing: their megalomaniac pride. It means that they will never permit the people they ‘represent’ anything more than the basic rudiments of influence by means of the occasional ‘general election’.

What are the implications? No, we don’t want to use force, even though most of their political systems were imposed by force of arms at some stage or other. We have but one resource upon which they depend like manna from heaven: our votes.

The way to bring down all these misbegotten, moth-eaten, corrupt ‘parliaments’ is for the people to completely abstain from voting in their ‘general elections’. Suppose at the next ‘general election’ farce a bare 20% of the electorate voted. The legitimacy of whatever ‘parliament’ resulted would be nil. This would indicate a complete collapse in confidence in the existing political arrangements and would signal the need for a special People’s Conference to put together our first democratic constitution, closely modelled on the Swiss Federal Constitution.

The technique for achieving this result is patently simple: Don’t vote!

“Don’t vote!” must be our slogan and our unswerving purpose. Therefore, in time for the next ‘GE’, we need to mobilise and motivate the same number of people who signed the referendum demand to throw out the Bradford folly. The task would be absurdly easy: just let us all talk regularly to all of our friends and families, colleagues and acquaintances and explain to them why they should *not* vote.

We can start now.

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