David Craig, on April 1st, 2025Tuesday-Wednesday blog
I must admit I never thought they would dare – banning Marine Le Pen – the probably winner of the next French presidential election from standing as a candidate. After all, I spent some time in Brussels researching and writing my book – THE GREAT EUROPEAN RIP-OFF – and can confirm that everybody in the EU Commission and EU supposed ‘Parliament’ is playing the system to fill their pockets at European taxpayers’ expense. Billions of EU taxpayers’ money goes missing every year and I think only about 3 or 4 people have been prosecuted in the last 20-30 years.
But, of course, Marine Le Pen is just the latest popular politician to be persecuted, excluded from power or even banned by Europe’s supposedly ‘liberal’ ruling elites.
Romania: In March 2025 Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has lost his appeal against a ruling barring him from participating in May’s presidential election.
The Constitutional Court issued the final ruling after deliberating for two hours. It said the decision was unanimous. The Central Electoral Bureau had earlier rejected Georgescu’s candidacy for a rerun of the presidential election in May.
Georgescu had won the first round of last year’s presidential vote, but it was annulled after intelligence revealed Russia had been involved in setting up almost 800 TikTok accounts backing him. The election bureau said Georgescu’s candidacy did not “meet the conditions of legality”, as he “violated the very obligation to defend democracy“.
Moldova: In June 2023, the Constitutional Court in Moldova has ordered the immediate dissolution of pro-Russian party Sor. The court said that the party was “unconstitutional” and would be banned.
In March, Moldova’s police chief warned that Russian intelligence agencies had been using protests organised by Sor to try to destabilise the country. The Sor party is led by Ilan Shor, a fugitive businessman who fled to Israel in 2019 after being convicted of fraud and money-laundering.
Following the court ruling, Shor took to Facebook to claim that the move had “nothing to do with a rule-of-law state, democratic principles and values, the supremacy of laws and the constitution”.
Netherlands: On 4 September 2020, a Dutch court convicted Geert Wilders for group insults, following comments he made about Moroccans in the Netherlands. And in March 2024 Dutch anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders had to abandoned his bid to become prime minister, despite his party’s dramatic victory in the 2023 elections.
“I can only become prime minister if ALL parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. His Freedom Party (PVV) won the most votes last year, but needed support of other parties to form a coalition.
Germany: In November 2024 113 lawmakers signed an application to ban the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), citing concerns over far-right AfD’s alleged anti-democratic behavior, anti-constitutional goals. Marco Wanderwitz, a conservative lawmaker from the center-right CDU, said their application has been submitted to the German parliament’s President Barbel Bas. He emphasized the urgency of the matter, citing the upcoming new election as a critical factor in the timing of this action.
Britain: Local elections in East Sussex, West Sussex, Essex, Thurrock, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey will be delayed for at least one year (if they’re ever held at all) to allow major reorganisations to take place, Local Government Secretary Angela Rayner has said.
Speaking to Parliament, Rayner said the postponement would pave the way for a “generational power shift from Whitehall to the town hall”. She said that holding elections for authorities that were due to be scrapped would be “an expensive and irresponsible waste of taxpayers’ money”.
However, Conservative shadow minister Kevin Hollinrake said the “mass postponement” was a “worrying day for democracy”. Reform UK has launched a petition against the delay in elections, with leader Nigel Farage on X claiming that “Labour and the Tories have colluded to officially cancel over 5.5 million votes in May”. Speaking at a press conference in Westminster, he blamed the “cowardice of the existing political class” for the move.
America: And we mustn’t forget the four years during which activist Democrat judges launched a tsunami of lawsuits against Donald Trump to get him removed from the November 2024 elections and even imprisoned to try to prevent him running.
In all these cases, the ruling ‘liberal’ elites felt it was too dangerous to allow voters to decide who they wanted to elect.
After all, in today’s world where corrupt voter-despising politicians, unelected elitist judges and self-serving mostly incompetent bureaucrats keep grabbing ever more power, you have to ban democracy in order to save it.
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Here in the UK, you can guarantee that the ‘major reorganisations’ in local gov’t will only increase bureaucracy and do nothing for democracy (except maybe reduce it)
Must ban democracy to save the bureaucracy.
Just read the Cuban Human Rights Observatory (OCDH) estimates that at least 89% of Cubans currently live in “extreme poverty.” This is a textbook tragic example of how a nation inevitably falls under Marxist–Leninist socialist policies that dictate everyone must be equal in poverty.
The same will happen to Farage before the next election.
He will not be allowed to be popular.
What exactly are we banning and what are we saving? There are many definitions, one says government of the eligible population through elected representatives. How can an elected MP, elected through a party system, represent the views of several thousand people, who they mostly never meet, and when most of them didn’t vote for the person elected? Democracy, as defined, is meaningless.
It is said that one of the most democratic government was the USA when the Constitution was first written. The politicians did everything possible to extend the power of the federal government. It finally happened in 1913 when the 16th Amendment was past introducing income tax and the federal reserve was created. The Founding Fathers left the UK to get away from this in the UK but it didn’t take long for the state the remove the freedoms of the Constitution.
Democracy anywhere requires a Constitution like the original US and a ban on political parties.
The politicians don’t care about us. All they do is increase their power over us and try to take as much money as possible from us and from playing the system. It is impossible to reverse anything that has happened, probably starting with the French Revolution. Socialism is now so well established that is cannot be reversed because a majority are now dependent on the state and could not survive without it. It will end at some stage with absolute poverty, civil unrest or even wars, which is a favourite of states who see their power slipping away and Starmer seems to be at this point.
Here is another relevant quote that I have just seen. It is from AJP Taylor, English History 1914-1945:
“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state beyond the post office and the policeman. .. He could travel abroad or leave his country forever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money without restriction or limit. He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter a foreigner could spend his life in the country without permit and without informing the police. ..
All this was changed by the impact of the Great War…The state established a hold over its citizens which though relaxed in peace time, was never to be removed and which the Second World War was again to increase.
The history of the English state and the English people merged for the fist time.”
Our problems started a long time ago.
A. Thorpe
The power of the state escalated many-fold when covid was used to imprison us in our own homes!! Suddenly the PTB realised that the general population was ready to be told what to do, when and how without question. Since then the grip has tightened with the current government stifling the last remnants of freedom by imprisoning those who speak against it rather than real criminals!! I’m only thankful that I’m into my 70s as I shudder to think what this country will be in 10 years!!