Leader debates: 'Smaller' parties in legal action threats

The BBC is reporting that the televised debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg may well be subject to legal challenge.

Their article cites representatives of the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, and the Green Party - all of whom are seriously concerned at being excluded from these TV debates, with Plaid's Elfyn Llwyd calling them "completely undemocratic".

And good for all of those parties involved. They should take every step to make sure that they are included.

Increasingly, it is difficult to slide a Rizla paper between the three main parties on major issues of the day.

Nowhere is this more apparent than policies on membership of the European Empire (where all three parties have now - to varying degrees - colluded to prevent us from having our say) and on this so called 'climate change' drama where all three are singing from the same 'the end of the world is nigh' (unless we pay the World Bank a load of money in taxes) song sheet.

However, the status quo of more of the same will be neatly preserved unless the message of parties offering real opposition is allowed to be heard on a level playing field.

Whilst Sky and ITV can pretty much do as they want provided it adheres to legislation in this regard, we the people should insist that the broadcaster that WE own - the BBC - gives full coverage to genuine opposition parties who genuinely offer democratic choices about the way they propose to act in government if we were to entrust them with administrative decisions in taking the country forward with the taxes that we the people pay.

We the people are in charge (or at least are meant to be) and we the people have a democratic right to hear the message of all those who seek to represent us - not just the LibLabCon of the established order where policy differences are minimal at best.

It is time that we the people demanded legitimate and true democracy - not the veneer of a sham that has constantly enraged us for decades.

Remember, democracy means "of the people". That's you and I - normal people. Not just the banking elite or (sometimes clandestine) pressure and lobby groups.

At the risk of sounding like a sheep, we the people in this country don't just often want or hope for change - we deserve it.

After all, we pay out enough money for the administration of our nation.

All of those Government departments, all of those ministers and politicians, the armed forces, the police force, in some cases the banks, the postal service, the roads, the schools, the hospitals... we own all of that - we paid for it. Not Labour. Not the Conservatives. Not the Liberal Democrats or anybody else. We the people pay for it.

We the people should be in charge of the whole lot of it as is supposed to be the case in a democracy. We the people should control how OUR national services work, function, and the decisions that are made that shape their futures.

We the people should, therefore, have some real say and choice in who is best to protect and deliver what we are paying for.

What REAL choice and difference do the LibLabCon actually offer us in our national future? Have a look at their websites. The answer - too often - is that they represent merely three sides of the same somewhat shady looking coin.

It is time for the reinstatement of legitimate democracy. And that means making sure that we the people hear the ideas of ALL those who seek to serve us.