“The Prime Minister is very focused on what we need to do to recapture people's enthusiasm. The Prime Minister, when he comes back from his holidays, will set out very clearly what he intends to do.” Alistair Darling, offering hope to the United Kingdom.
After all, he couldn't be intending to propose any more years of Gordon Brown and his regime, could he?
The idea of 'over the next 20 months I will lay the foundations for another five years of maladministration, economic incompetence, financial irregularity not to say corruption, and further war-mongering; all to be accompanied by the gross impoverishment of every man jack of you. This will be brought about by the abolition of all voting on any occasion and the use of focus groups and appointed citizens' advisory panels, expressing the choices of hard working families to be realised by regional bodies in the newly constituted Britain of the Countries and the Regions (BCR) within the over-arching hegomony of the agreed Lisbon constitutional arrangements.'
He is going to say 'I am going to the palace and asking the Head of State to dissolve the Parliament and call a general election.', isn't he?
Isn't he?
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I have more than once spent time trying to find out about the Privy Council - who's on it and what decisions it has made, and has the power to make. In a "national crisis", we could find out very fast that we're not a democracy. Can you enlighten us?
The cabinet is a sub committee of the Privy Council, S.
All who have served as ministers are there, in the full Council, so it crosses Party lines. The head of state can consult the privy councillors - and no doubt does, or some of them. A network of the elected and once elected great and good, it has been down-graded in its informal influence by New Labour's constitutional meddling, particularly with the office of Lord Chancellor.
You will have gathered that Angels is no longer convinced of any constitutional practice standing solid any more. Not even the maximum term of parliaments.
The effect of European Union membership requirements on parliamentary sovereignty combined with the deliberate subversion of democratic government by setting up shadow structures of appointees with more funding from central government, plus media obfuscation of which political issues are central, and which peripheral measures discussion is centred on, topped off with the open recognition and often declaration by many Labour representatives and supporters that the spirit of the constitution and often its form, which determine the nature of the state, is not to be observed and that only formal rules need to be circumvented, the deliberate admixture of the current regime with the state itself, has placed our democracy in the 'at high risk' category.
It's a discussion that ought to be had but most talk of future politics takes place always as if there has been no change, no irreversible alterations to how we choose our government or, even more importantly, how we order our state, and that polls of voting intentions count for more than current regime actions in affecting us.
I think you should say far more about this, and in short sentences for goldfish like me. I agree with you that we seem to have a major systemic constitutional crisis.
HG: Sorry, been gadding about again for a day or two and am just now in the process of catching up on my reading.
As a fellow goldfish, may I endorse Mr Sack's plea for shorter sentences? I find I have to re-read some of your paragraphs 3 times before I really follow what you are getting at. Thanks.
I blame it all on advancing age and a (not too badly) mis-spent youth (but I do not speak for others of course!). I agree with you that the future does look rather bleak for the younger generation.
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