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Once every two years FFS this makes the Handforth Parish Council look Good.
by Mauricebranagh 6y ago
Once every two years FFS this makes the Handforth Parish Council look Good.
- trentnix 6y agoIt’s not a bug. It’s the best feature.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoApart from the holding the executive to account part of democracy.
- trentnix 6y agoThe executive can't do much damage if it doesn't have any money to work with.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoAh that's a "sin of ommision" then
- roenxi 6y agoContinuing my theme from above; if legislators took a 6 month recess after every major crisis before starting to debate it the quality of law would probably be a lot better. Democracies naturally tend to deadlock anyway, stuff everyone agrees on got waved through years ago. Most of the time in session is grandstanding and making a fuss without achieving much. Legislators have a terrible habit of using a crisis to: 1) Make something that was already illegal super-dooper illegal (see: terrorism). 2) Mucking up traditional safeguards against bad government - like evidence requirements, reasonable process, human rights in some cases, debating the legislation, reading the bill before voting on it, etc. In emergencies, legislators are just going to rubber-stamp things technical experts wave under their nose/hand power to some executive. They aren't needed.
- caf 6y agoThat just leaves plenty of time for all the sundry industry lobbyists, gladhanders and sleeve-tuggers to capture all the legislators and their advisors, ensuring the status quo is maintained and nothing ever gets fixed.