Mr Brown goes to Westminster
Amazing, almost cinematic scenes at Westminster last night as a young, naive idealist arrived at Parliament, saw the corruption around him and declared he would do all in his power to end it. Our democracy, he said…
…cannot operate like some gentleman’s club where the members make up the rules and operate them among themselves.
What passion. What vision. Just who is this Young Turk? Gordon Brown, you say? A name to remember for the future, I’ll wager. And he’s been an MP for how long? Since 1983?
Right. The script for this remake is going to need some work.
Posted on May 20th, 2009 at 7:52am under Brown, Sleaze
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Never mind that, look over there! The World Cup!
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The thing is, what with the supremacy of parliament that lies at the very heart of the British constitution and the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy, if members of said parliament don’t make up the rules then these proposed reforms will undermine the only constant of the British political system of the last 320 years. Which means that the entire political system needs to be rethought.
This may be a good thing, of course, as large chunks of the way things work in this country are decidedly anachronistic. But do we really want the current lot in charge of working out a new system, when they’ve repeatedly failed in every attempt at constitutional reform during the last twelve years?