Quo Vadis Labour?

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Follow up questions to the above. Is the government minister justified in pushing commercial media channels as long as they are re-elected, and the PM does not sack them? Or are there standards that stand regardless of whether or not they are elected? And relating to that, given the format of our democracy. Is the government justified in doing anything they like, as long as they are elected?

The UK does not have a formal constitution, because the argument in the past has been that the electorate will punish any errant government. However, this government has contravened a number of parliamentary customs that served to check past governments, and the PM has been repeatedly shown to be more often lying than telling the truth. But he was re-elected, nonetheless. Does this validate anything the PM does, and his government? Is media popularity the only requirement for any government?

The system of the UK has a a key strength in the ability to quickly change to new circumstances.
The massive flaw is of course tha the system relies in people having something like a working set of ethics. Boris has never been encombered by one of those in either his professional or personal life. He is, to be clear, gutter journalist scum.
The electorate in turn doesn't seem to really care - the Tories loosing to the Lib Dems in a by election apparently had more to do with reforming the planning process as the right to both complain no housing as well as protest any and all developments is key.
As thubgs stand, there are almost no checks and balances. The Courts only enforce the Law (so when the Tories move to remove the powers from the body overseeing politicians no one bat's an eyelid). Remove the law enforcing elections every 5 years? That's fine too. As long as they change the laws rather than breaking then all is fine.
The only theoretical power base is the Monarch. But sadly the House of Windsor prefers visiting charities, holding cream teas and feuding publicly with the ginger Beta and his sociopath of a wife rather than providing any sort of governance on the Politicians.

Te system only reacts to events that loose votes. We have a system where lying at elections is fine - and even truths are vague aims rather than having any legally minding weight. In short, the system is rotten and not far of the system of rotten boroughs but this time the politicians are bought directly by rich backers.