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A system where all the power is vested in a person who can never have any authority to use it works surprisingly well. Our PM has all the authority but none of
by neilwilson 3y ago
A system where all the power is vested in a person who can never have any authority to use it works surprisingly well.
Our PM has all the authority but none of the power. He has to ask the King’s assent for everything - which curbs any real extremism.
The purists don’t like it but it works.
As you get older you start to understand why Chesterton’s fence is there.
- kentrado 3y agoCan you provide examples of how it curbs extremism? The Tories have been doing extreme stuff and I don't see any intervention from the monarch.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoWhat are examples of the extremism you refer to?
- kentrado 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_contr...
- neilwilson 3y agoThat's not extremism. That's the way the constitution works. What was intended to happen happened anyway. The constitutional outrage was failing to implement the 2016 referendum that the people voted for. MPs acted with impunity and were rewarded by ejection at the following election. The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act then set the matter on a statutory basis so the courts cannot interfere in the political process again.
- kentrado 3y agoI disagree and I think there's enough information available that explains why Boris Johnson, proroguing parliament in the way that he did was unconstitutional and extremist. However, even if you are right and it is not extremism. That doesn't support the idea that monarchies prevent extremism. If the argument is, there has never been extremism in the UK because of the monarchy and therefore I cannot give examples of extremism then that's a specious argument.