Labour are going to try to bounce the country into changing the rules to help them

So the most shameless government in history plans to do try to add to its reputation by changing the rules of our democracy to benefit itself and the personal careers of the soon to be defeated Labour political class.

At least that's what you have to conclude from the make up and nature of the so called "National Democratic Council" - a concept that would make East German communists blush.

This is an outrage in the making ....

Update: The Mole suggests its driven by a very gloomy (for Labour) view of their future prospects. ( Yes loyal Labour youngsters - the current gutless spon merchants have destroyed your futures. After all kicking away the ladder isn't just for the education system ;-) )

Further Update after Brown's commons statement:

Based on PMQ question Cameron is clearly concerned Labour intend to fix the electoral system.

Brown is pushing proportional representation - Cameron says its because he's going to lose on the current system.

Brown just can't help but be very political....

A fixed consitution will be very hard to get agreement on. I can't help feeling its Labour trying to fix the system so that it can't be reversed when they are out of power for the next 15 years.

He's just mentioned no 10 petitions - wonder if Cameron will come back on the most popular petition there - to get rid of him.

Labour's scorched Earth strategy turns to the constitution

Like Hitler who determined that Germany must be destroyed for failing him, Gordon Brown and the Labour party seem determined to destroy the UK in spite and their impending rejection.

Our institutions have been savaged or destroyed. Educational certificates are now devalued. All public servants now seem to need cash incentives to go on top of their golden pay rises and spectacular pensions that for the over £60k/year mob make the troughing of MPs look like amateurs.

They have ensured our military will be on its knees for a decade or two to come, with decades worth of equipment life used up in a few short years, but no provision for replacements made.

They have bound and sold our country out to the European Union - at the same time breaking their election oath to provide a referendum on such a surrender to a foreign power.

Our banks have been destroyed and nationalised. Our currency debauched. Our pensions ( for those not in the ruling classes super well provided for left wing rich list public sector little piggy scheme ) have been stolen and reduced to dust.

But that's not enough for Labour, now they have to try to make the country ungovernable by the next government.

PR is always proposed by parties out of power or suspecting they will lose it shortly.

Alan Johnson, in combining a referendum with a general election is playing fast and loose with the constitution just to keep a few more little Labour piggies with their snouts in the trough at parliament.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against electoral reform, although my preference would be for PR for the house of Lords to provide a form of check and balance on the geographical representation of the commons. But this is being proposed by panicked lefties who fear the loss of power. ( If proper PR were introduced then I don't expect any of the three main parties to survive as they are - especially the most shameless party of all the Lib Dems who are in effect two political parties with one name. )

Indeed I think its reasonable to argue that its actually a betrayal of democracy by a party seeking to retain power by changing the rules that keep it in absolute power for twelve years.

As I said in an earlier post, these are dangerous times. And the Labour party is the shameless, gutless, self interested machine to hang onto power in any way their grubby little minds can conceive.

Voting reform: Pandora's ballot box

Just listened to an article on The World at One on Gordon Browns hinting at electoral reform (aka Ming - you'll form an coalition with me if it all goes pear shaped won't you).

It always seems to be assumed that voting reform would be good for the Left and not the Right.

Its even assumed it would be good for the Lib Dems - after all it is almost their holy grail as far as policy goes, based on narrow self interest dressed up an principle in my view.

But I think some of these may be lazy assumptions. Just look at the was PR has damaged the Lib Dems in Wales. The coalition building process potentially taints the parties concerned so much that none of them, except the two green MSP's in Scotland want to get involved.

Labour has lost its Scottish local government heartlands, maybe forever due to PR. Perhaps Gordon calculates that he would like to do the same for the Tory South.

But all political parties are essentially coalitions of people, formed to make common cause under a particular set of rules. Change the rules and the parties will change.

I doubt that any of the 3 main parties would survive wide spread PR intact.

Likely unexpected results would be Ethnic parties - like the BNP and Islamicists ( there is a Islamic party in Holland where one of the woman MP's only campaigns in mosques - she doesn't care what anyone else thinks ).

UKIP and the English Democrats would pick up defections. The SDP would ride again and Labour would just fragment.

So whatever Gordon Brown is planning it is more likely to be AV to keep the small parties out the consistency link. It is also likely to be fashioned for party political advantage.

In doing so he would make the case for a written constitution to stop this sort of gerrymandering.

But no one should think they can effectively fully calculate what the impact will be of opening Pandora's ballot box of electoral manipulation. The current voting patterns and parties are built on the current rules and assumptions. Change the rules and the patterns will change also.

My prediction - having just said how fool hardy such a thing is - is that the Lib Dems would be the surprise losers. What do you think ?