Well, seems the mother of all parliaments just has grown up a bit more and established parliamentary oversight over govt even in security sensitive areas
This is an excellent analysis and unlike anything else that’s been written on the subject. It hadn’t really occurred to me that events last Wednesday were an expression by MPs that they’d no confidence in the PM.
As you say, it must be pretty devastating for Starmer. Particularly in view of the fact that it’s been reported the one big thing that matters to him in life is winning.
Our unwritten constitutional ‘rules’ seem to be in some disarray at the moment. Perhaps rather this though than having those rules set in legislative stone and so unable to change as need arises.
It means that traditional ways of doing things can respond to the realities of political life, thus creating, in time, new traditions which will persist until they too are shown to be beyond their use-by date.
The argument against the absence of a written constitution of course is that a potential dictator is less constrained in his actions than if there were a written constitution. But ... we see the various dictatorships or quasi-dictatorships where the constitution has quite easily been gradually altered or weakened by attacks on the judiciary and of course...Trump.
Well, seems the mother of all parliaments just has grown up a bit more and established parliamentary oversight over govt even in security sensitive areas
This is an excellent analysis and unlike anything else that’s been written on the subject. It hadn’t really occurred to me that events last Wednesday were an expression by MPs that they’d no confidence in the PM.
As you say, it must be pretty devastating for Starmer. Particularly in view of the fact that it’s been reported the one big thing that matters to him in life is winning.
An interesting analysis.
Our unwritten constitutional ‘rules’ seem to be in some disarray at the moment. Perhaps rather this though than having those rules set in legislative stone and so unable to change as need arises.
It means that traditional ways of doing things can respond to the realities of political life, thus creating, in time, new traditions which will persist until they too are shown to be beyond their use-by date.
The argument against the absence of a written constitution of course is that a potential dictator is less constrained in his actions than if there were a written constitution. But ... we see the various dictatorships or quasi-dictatorships where the constitution has quite easily been gradually altered or weakened by attacks on the judiciary and of course...Trump.
Thank you for the clarity regarding the constitutional crisis.