Would someone go and give the Prime Minsiter, The Maximum Tone, a right good kicking please? He appears to be completely incapable of understanding the basics of how the Constitution works (yes, OK, that’s redundant but this latest is yet another example):
Tony Blair warned the
House of Lords last night not to defy public opinion by moving to wreck
the government’s terror bill today as further objections to the
measures emerged from chief police officers and the civil liberty lobby.
Sigh, that’s what the bloody House of Lords is for you silly little man. Public opinion would happily hang from the nearest lampost everyone even suspected of kiddy diddling (and as a mark of quite how intelligent the mob can be, recall that one in Portsmouth tried to burn down the house of a paediatrician, they not quite understanding the difference in words). It may be that the current composition of the House is not quite all it could be but that is the very point of a second chamber in a bicameral system. To revise laws that have been passed in the first on such a groundswell of ill advised public opinion.
If the House of Lords were to simply reject the Bill in its entirety (as I hope they will but acknowledge they won’t) they would not be doing anything wrong by defying public opinion they would be doing their damn job. Stopping the Commons from passing insane and stupid laws.
As proposed by you, The Dear Leader.
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