UK Politics Thread

[rory_20_uk]

The ending is extremely trite - it's not the Constitution out politicians have failed in the last 10 years. Which is true but the system expects this to not happen.

Power is increasingly held by one person with very little to curtail it - as long as elections are won (which means a majority of posts - not the majority of the electorate).

This isn't that new - Blair took us to war on a known lie and nothing happened.

Trying to codify every eventuality is of course both stupid and a very American approach. I would wish there to be not another executive branch, but an investigative branch that broadly keeps them honest. The Police seem to have an aversion to investigating their "betters" as if we're in the 1850s, the courts only oversee the Law whatever it is (as is right and proper) and MI5 take along, strategic view - they'll not tip their hand over mere lying / tax evasion etc but use that to see what hostile forces bite. And again they're very good at what they do.

We have had almost 3 years where a known liar continue to lie, breaks the law and brazened it out. That he will soon be gone for a nice sincure as Diplomat Without Shame to the Ukraine - shortly followed by a knighthood of course - is not evidence that everything is fine and we must Keep Calm and Carry On.