Comments on: The Security Argument for a British Bill of Rights http://www.spittoon.org/archives/1412 Heresy is another word for freedom of thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:32:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yossarian http://www.spittoon.org/archives/1412#comment-9674 Yossarian Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:52:24 +0000 http://www.spittoon.org/?p=1412#comment-9674 <blockquote>Also, can you imagine what a constitution written by a committee composed of the present tranche of back-stabbing MPs and impotent, spineless, boot-licking bureaucrats would look like? Such a constitution would undoubtedly be more likely to inspire apathy than any feelings of belonging, pride or collective vision.</blockquote> Entirely true. And I don't much fancy the coming Tory dominated parliament for such a delicate task either.

Also, can you imagine what a constitution written by a committee composed of the present tranche of back-stabbing MPs and impotent, spineless, boot-licking bureaucrats would look like? Such a constitution would undoubtedly be more likely to inspire apathy than any feelings of belonging, pride or collective vision.

Entirely true. And I don’t much fancy the coming Tory dominated parliament for such a delicate task either.

]]> By: Inspector Gadget http://www.spittoon.org/archives/1412#comment-9642 Inspector Gadget Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:22:48 +0000 http://www.spittoon.org/?p=1412#comment-9642 I don't think that the problem is really the political system itself or the lack of a single written constitution. The recent political crisis has rather arisen because individual MPs believe that their position somehow entitles them to enrich themselves at the expense of the hoi polloi. Also, can you imagine what a constitution written by a committee composed of the present tranche of back-stabbing MPs and impotent, spineless, boot-licking bureaucrats would look like? Such a constitution would undoubtedly be more likely to inspire apathy than any feelings of belonging, pride or collective vision. I don’t think that the problem is really the political system itself or the lack of a single written constitution. The recent political crisis has rather arisen because individual MPs believe that their position somehow entitles them to enrich themselves at the expense of the hoi polloi.

Also, can you imagine what a constitution written by a committee composed of the present tranche of back-stabbing MPs and impotent, spineless, boot-licking bureaucrats would look like? Such a constitution would undoubtedly be more likely to inspire apathy than any feelings of belonging, pride or collective vision.

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