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PMQs #005 - This Country Doesn't Work Anymore

54 min episode · 2 min read
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This Country Doesn't Work

Episode

54 min

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2 min

Topics

Science & Discovery, Economics & Policy, Books & Authors

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Key Takeaways

  • 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.

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.

Notable Moment

McCormack describes asking people at football matches if their living standards improved under current government or will improve under any future government. The universal answer of no across all scenarios crystallized his belief voting cannot fix systemic dysfunction.

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Episode Transcript

Hello. Hello. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. Hope you're doing well. We are two days from Christmas, and we are recording probably it might be the final PMQs before the end of the year. We might do another one. We will see. I've got your boy, Connor the radical here. How you doing, boy? Yep. His. You're out of order. That's my son. I love him. We've had a week. We've had a we've had a very interesting week. A lot of debates in the McCormack household. Everything from well, we we made a show with Carl Benjamin, where I got smoked. I got smoked in the comments. We've also been debating that. Been debating race. We've been debating revolutions, constitutions, the state of the country. We even had a debate over AI and how it should be used in school. It's been a busy week, but we've been thinking long and hard this week. Right? Talk a lot, don't we, about everything? I rant a lot. Yeah. Yeah. But we do. We just we we're we don't just make this show and then go home and watch football. We sit in the car and debate every show we make. We debate the topics hard. We spent a lot of time thinking about this Carl Benjamin show and what the implications are. I've actually written an article which I may publish today, where I call the race war scam, which is definitely gonna trigger some people. But we talk about this a lot. We think about this deeply. We think about the things that happen in our country and the impact it has on everyone. And so this show today is gonna follow on a little bit from the last one where I talked about no longer consent because I have been going down various rabbit holes. I've been reading a lot, thinking a lot about the role of government and the role of the of the electorate of the no? The role of the electorate, the relationship between the two, how it works. I've been reading a lot about US history, how they declared their independence, how they wrote the constitution, how they wrote their bill of rights, the debates between the federalists, the anti federalists, because I think a lot about the state of the country right now. My overriding thought, which I keep coming back to you, and if you follow me on Twitter, you'll keep seeing me say this or reply to people, is that this country doesn't work anymore. I think it's fundamentally broken, and I don't think we can vote our way out of it. And so I'm gonna take you on a journey. I'm taking you on my journey, what I'm I'm doing. And look. I'm not a professor. I'm not a constitutional lawyer. I'm not a constitutional historian. I am just a guy with a son who lives in this country who is trying to build a future …

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