The fundamental flaw in the elevation of Brown to PM, is that he only has to appeal to the members of his party, the rest of have no say in or can influence the policies he intends to bring in. This is the third time this has happened with mid term successions and it has to stop.
The Telegraph this morning speculates that Straw will be reinstated as Home Secretary and will drop the illiberal ID cards, no, that is not the case Brown states on Radio 4 this morning we are pushing ahead with this.
Naughtie then asks him about the 'debate' on the Constitution, will there be a convocation on a written constitution. Brown evaded this one completedly, droning on about all parties taking part in a national debate.
As Tom Paine has said out constitution consists of three words- 'Parliament is Sovereign' thats it. After that the PM enjoys the Crown perogative and can largely do what he/she wants.
Never before in our History have we needed more protection for our rights from Government. Everybody, from whatever party, should start to push for a modern written constitution, to preserve us from the disaster that is about to unfold.
UPDATE
The Lord Protector's website is up, I suggest that as Consitutional matters are not even on his horizon enough people should bring it to his attention !
3 hours ago
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Interesting. That's how written constitutions can look at first: like protection against the enemy.
And yet when Labour got into power in 1997 they had the mandate and the numbers to change the constitution in any way they liked. (Indeed, they have.)
If our constitution were written, this means that any subsequent goverment would not be able to undo the damage with a simple parliamentary majority, but with two thirds of the parliamentary vote (probably, though we could adopt a different threshold if we chose). The opposition in Venezuela, Poland and Turkey are all on tenterhooks at the moment over this exact issue.
A further disadvantage is that power is transferred from the people's representatives to the courts (most likely a "Supreme Court"). Again, this might look like protection if you happen not to like a particular government, but if you're in power it can be a nightmare (ask the Americans).
And this is before you even start to think what a constitution might look like today. Framed by a Brown government.
http://elliottjoseph.blogspot.com/2007/05/oh-god-gordon-no.html
Brown is the very last person on Earth I'd trust with constitutional reform; despite his weasel words we all know he's going to use the power of the executive to force-march the nation into even further redistributive welfare catastrophe. He'll geld the law lords and the courts, confine Parliament, add layers of control that even Blair never dreamt of.
The best we can hope for is riots of such savagery in the streets that the Queen prorogues Parliament and forces an election when we can kick the presbyterian psychopath out.
As I have said at my blog. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Something tells me a Brownian Constitution will enshrine a lot of rights that the founding fathers of the US would not have imagined. The right to benefits information in Farsi, anyone? Or the right for Scottish cancer patients to be saved with drugs unavailable to English ones?
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