SHOULD KING CHARLES DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT AND CALL A GENERAL ELECTION

I've voted no, because we are a democracy. Having an unelected person decide the people we elected to run the country should be "sacked" would be undemocratic.

It may well only be an illusion of democracy.

For me, though, even that illusion, with checks and balances, is preferable to what's going on in, say. the US, North Korea, Russia etc., where everyone's lives are entirely at the mercy on one man's whims.

I guess we'll need to agree to disagree. 🙂

PS I've loathed Labour since Tony Blair became PM. I used to call them Tory-lite. I've dropped the 'lite' element of that description since Starmer snatched the wheel. To me, they are now Red Tories.

I am going with the no, because it's a democracy option as well.

Democracy does also mean being able to change something through voting. But there are established rules for how this is done.

Let me be clear, in two decades of voting in every single election (local and national) I have never ever voted for the party that has been in power. I have never seen any meaningful political change come from my votes. I also voted remain in the Brexit referendum and have still suffered from the fallout of that policy. But I remember vividly throughout that how Farage and company went on and on about how it was a 'democratic process' and that a revote would be against democracy. We'd decided as a nation on Brexit, so be it.

Farage was one of the first to talk about a fresh election to reject the Labour win and that hypocrisy jarred with me. As a nation, Labour were elected in. Did I vote for them? No. But that doesn't mean that their being elected is invalid.

So no. If you start messing around with our democracy because you disagree with one party's values, however obnoxious, then you open up the country to something far more terrifying. And especially given that the real push for a fresh election is coming on social media etc from those who argued passionately that democracy meant accepting the result of a vote, even if you did not agree with it.

Now, should we reform our democracy in time for the next election, with discussions on things like proportional representation - that's another discussion completely. I'm not satisfied with how our democracy works, but cannot support any attempts to undermine it.