Guardian: Falconer spurns campaign to give MPs vote on going to war
The government has rebuffed the campaign to give MPs a right to vote on Britain going to war, saying it will support neither a new law nor even a new convention giving parliament war-making powers.
Posted on April 8th, 2006 at 5:36pm under Affronts to democracy, Chicken Nuggets, UK politics
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Charlie says:
There is not a problem it seems to me in the way that parliament has held the executive to account over the last 50 to 60 years.
That’s surely a candidate for the perfect example of a New Labour statement.
For a hobby, I hear Falconer likes to repeatedly shout “two plus two equals five” at people waiting at bus stops. If anyone attempts to correct him, he just shouts all the louder. Once everyone has given up trying (or been arrested – occasionally necessary if someone simply refuses to stop protesting) he proclaims that he has won the debate through the strength of his argument. He then departs in a flourish of ermine trimmed smugness. That’s what I hear anyway.
But then, in this case, you wonder what has happened to their compulsive, irresistible modernising instinct – the paresis that drives this syphilitic government.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has never stopped them in the past.
Guess this means that the plans for War with Iran are well underway…