Regular readers may have wondered why I haven`t written much last week.
The answer is simple :-
Terminal depression at the stupidity of the great British public in electing the unctuous Tony Blair for a third term.
Anyone would have been better than the consummate showman that we have now.
Shakes head sadly and reaches for another cup of tea and bar of chocolate......
3 comments:
At least you have a good monarch. Doesn't she have veto powerover her government? If so, nothing too daft can happen. She seems to have a good head on her sholders and to genuinely love her subjects.
Methinks you misunderstand the power (or lack thereof) of the monarch. The only thing she could do is refuse to sign a piece of legislation. Were she (or any subsequent monarch) to refuse the royal assent to a piece of legislation, there would be an immediate constitutional crisis and it would possibly mean the end of the monarchy altogether.
And no Government would be quicker to do this than the present one. They have, after all, dismembered the House of Lords, attempted to abolish the 1400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor (not complete yet due to other legal hurdles - not HM the Queen), dismantled the right to trial by jury, taken power away from the judiciary and put it in the hands of Government ministers... need I go on? That's just consititutial matters.
As for other daft things... well, there is the legalisation of same-sex relationships as equal to marriage; the fact that if you make £15,000 a year the Government will top it up in tax credits to £23,000 (with the tax credit part being tax-free of course) but if I make £16,000 you get no tax credit; the NHS waiting lists for the waiting list, so the "real" waiting lists appear to be shorter when it takes longer to actually get treatment; the support for accession to the new European Constitution, so that we would be irretrievably locked in, lose our veto, and more than the current 70% of our laws would come out of Brussells; and the list goes on...
Nothing too daft can happen?
No trial by jury? Really? And you are not in civil war? I do not understand. This might be easy for me to say since I am one ocean and one continent away from Great Britain, but are you still English? What is going on over there. Do you have guns?
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