spokesperson for the middle class
‘I am really proud of the parliamentarians. Some of them have taken a great risk, knowing that their own constituents are against some of what they voted for in parliament. And that’s what our system is about.’
Yasmin Alibhai Brown speaking on The Papers (BBC News channel)
Yasmin Alibhai Brown is really proud MP’s are working to overturn the referendum result.
She realises that many constituencies voted to Leave the EU. She also implicitly concedes ‘in many cases’ the majority of those constituents still believe that the UK should leave the EU. But Ms Alibhai Brown is proud of those MP’s who are consciously working to thwart the wishes of those electors. ‘And that’s what our system is all about.’
The truth has been laid bare, to many people, that bourgeois democracy (so-called ‘parliamentary democracy’) is about a small cabal of 650 people making decisions about the future of the country, and over-riding the will of the people.
One of the gains of the political process over the last 3 years has been to lay bare the truth – that ‘parliamentary democracy’ is in fact bourgeois democracy, and is merely a facade covering what Marxists have always termed the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Those who hold the real power in society, those who control the money, financial institutions, media etc. are the ones who exercise power in practice.