Britain: A TECHnocracy?

If you asked the British public what was currently threatening British democracy, I'm sure you would receive a mixed bundle of answers. Terrorism, the European Union and the ever rising price of Freddos are just some of the most common you hear in today's media, however British democracy is under threat from something far more sinister. 

Technology has advanced incredibly over a very short period of time, but has it advanced enough to rule the United Kingdom? A senior civil servant blew the lid off one of the biggest secrets in British history, Parliament could be replaced by system of robots and computers by as early as 2018. 

Self-service checkouts, The
biggest threat to British Democracy?

Using the ground breaking Vasey-Bell chip, a supercomputer will replace the Prime minister as acting head of state. The chip takes into account a vast amount of information about the British public gained through the monitoring of self service checkouts, internet searches and thousands of other data sources stored online. 

Theoretically this will provide the greatest leader Britain has ever known, with the ability to work out every want and need of the people of the United Kingdom and to create and amend legislation accordingly. However experts are locked in debate over whether we are ready to be ruled by technology.

When informed about the government's plan, Connaire Pearce: Chief lecturer of Robotics at the University Of Ciliau Aeron said

"Robotics and computing is still far too primitive at this time for us to even consider letting it rule us, previous attempts at technology in Parliament have proved this"

Parliamentron, Britain's first robotic MP was
elected in 1997.

Mr Pearce is referring of course to the first robotic MP: Parliamentron who won the Bradford North seat for Labour in 1997. While making crucial saves to it's Hansard drive Parliamentron was accidentally turned off, corrupting its data. Since the accident Parliamentron developed extreme right wing views and had to be shut down after numerous racist remarks to constituents. Tony Blair apologised to the nation, but the government's research into robotics was scrapped. It is now the wish of the coalition government to revive the idea of robotics in Parliament. While on paper this ground-breaking technology sounds like the answer to the people of Britain's prayers, this could also be the biggest threat to British democracy if something were to go wrong, and that is something far too great to be gambling with.