A ‘new’ politics #2
Most people will probably think this a minor point, a detail of process and thus not worthy of attention. But it’s worth reading if you are at all under any lingering impression that Gordon Brown is on a mission to fix our broken democracy.
Time to start keeping another list. This is number two. Number one is this:
Gordon Brown yesterday tore up Blairite plans for a supercasino based in Manchester… the prime minister had not discussed it with the cabinet.
I’m no fan of super-casinos nor a constitutional expert, but wasn’t there an act of parliament laying this down in law? (Which Brown voted for.) You know, democratic process ‘n’ shit?
Posted on July 20th, 2007 at 9:21 am
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Dear, dear, old boy - you evidently haven’t been reading enough Tory blogs ranting about the new EU treaty, and so are somewhat behind the times:
Representative parliamentary democracy isn’t democracy - only things passed by a nationwide plebiscite (preceded by at least a couple of months of high-profile, big-budget campaigning by the Murdoch press) count as democratic these days.
Listening to people, eh? Dictatorship within the Government, more like.
No doubt about it, Brown has learned from the best. Case in point, the big 3 million new homes foofaraw, which this IOS report shows is indeed a pack of porkies:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2790956.ece
So basically, Mr Brown, when you said 3 million new, affordable homes, what you should also have said was `but we`re not going to build them, and we`re not going to even pay for them. No, what`ll happen is that housing associations will apply for bigger loans and build them that way. Hoots jings, trebles all round!’