Time For It To Be Made Clear When the Election Is Held

This Parliament is within weeks of expiry.  There can be no further credence given to the  argument that the prime minister of the day should be permitted to obtain political advantage from the determination of the date of the next general election: that is now a limited set of givens (see previous post) and the failure to announce the election date is taking on a sinister aspect.

Sinister because it is damaging the very shaky status of the country in being able to fund its debt crisis, and sinister because it raises the spectre of New Labour power holders yet again disturbing what was understood to be the United Kingdom's constitutional settlement.

We do not have a constitutional court, but an authoritative statement from our leading constitutional lawyers on the dissolution of the current parliament and the calling of the next general election required by constitutional practice and legal precedent is overdue.  If the Head of State believes that it is outside the  proper exercise of her office for such a statement to be issued, perhaps the media might step in; they are, after all, the Fourth Estate.