PMQs #005 - This Country Doesn't Work Anymore

What It Covers

Peter McCormack argues Britain's government is fundamentally broken beyond electoral repair, proposing peaceful revolution through mass noncompliance and constitutional constraints on government power, particularly unlimited money creation.

Key Questions Answered

• •Consent withdrawal strategy: Citizens can legally withdraw consent through mass peaceful noncompliance rather than voting, refusing to participate in systems that enable government overreach while staying within legal boundaries to avoid authoritarian crackdown.
• •Money creation constraint: Unlimited government borrowing and money printing enables special interest politics and factionalism. Constraining the money printer forces hard choices about resource allocation and prevents politicians from buying power through debt-funded promises.
• •Swiss direct democracy model: Switzerland requires 50,000 signatures to trigger referendum on government laws and 100,000 signatures for citizens to propose new laws, creating an anti-federalist check on centralized power that Britain lacks entirely.
• •Revolution theory application: Revolutions occur when inequality rises and governments stop listening, creating separation between electorate and power base. Violence undermines legitimacy, so peaceful mass mobilization through legal noncompliance offers sustainable path forward.