UK
Pass the Spanner
29/10/07 22:43 Filed in: Personal
Yesterday the Tories suggested the concept of only
having English MPs voting on English affairs. Then
before that we had the "will he, won't he?" game
around the prospect of the PM calling a general
election. On top of all that we have the gently
simmering question of what to do with the House of
Lords. For a country with no written constitution, we
seem to be doing quite well at generating
constitutional questions.
It seems fairly obvious that there are two reasons that we are having these questions. Firstly, we have no single written document stating how we shall be ruled, and secondly, as humans, we have a desire for the new and the modern. I have to say that I quite like the idea of the UK being one of only two states in the world to have an unwritten constitution. It is reflective of the fairly unique status of Britain as being a country that has tried on most forms of government at one time or another: absolute monarchy, republic, colony, imperial power and so on, but has finally settled on one without the need for a major modern revolution. But by slowly adopting and adapting, we have caused some little problems here and there in the make up of the state. Read More...
It seems fairly obvious that there are two reasons that we are having these questions. Firstly, we have no single written document stating how we shall be ruled, and secondly, as humans, we have a desire for the new and the modern. I have to say that I quite like the idea of the UK being one of only two states in the world to have an unwritten constitution. It is reflective of the fairly unique status of Britain as being a country that has tried on most forms of government at one time or another: absolute monarchy, republic, colony, imperial power and so on, but has finally settled on one without the need for a major modern revolution. But by slowly adopting and adapting, we have caused some little problems here and there in the make up of the state. Read More...
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