By©Muhammad Haque
1900 Hrs GMT
2000 Hrs UK Time
London Wednesday 28 May 2008
If Tom Harris, the Crossrail hole plot ‘minister’ [the UK department ‘for’ Transport, the Daft ‘DfT’ - fronted by Ruth Kelly in Gordon Brown’s current ‘cabinet’] is an insult to the intelligence, then there are other specimen of insult to people's’ intelligence that can be found in the UK House of Commons. And in the UK ‘legislative’ [!!!!!!] ‘House of Lords, come to that.
Why is Tom Harris an insult to the intelligence?
Because he talks leis. He talks unconstitutionality . He talks untruths.
As do ALL the ministers - and whips.
So what is the answer?
The constitutional l law answer is to expose them as being in breach of the constitution The first Principe of constitutionality is that the executive will tell the truth. And nothing but the truth.
In the international context. In the un universal context.
This is order that the people - the presumed, the assumed and the actual proprietors of the de facto republic [!!!!!!] [= in the UK state]
The second acton is of cooers equally frustrating. At the polls. But the UK electoral system itself is no respecter of morality. Not really.
So the third option - which is to expose these liars and to make them the subject of pub lic ridicule. Not because of who they are. But because of their insult to the people...
Harris has been talking a predictably dishonest, antidemocratic, undemocratic , antisocial and unconstitutional package of untruths about the Crossrail hole package.
He has done so whilst the Bill was getting the ‘Third Reading’ in the House of commons. He did so as it was formally passed on to the so-called ‘reviewing’ slot in the House of Lords.
As soon as I spotted the first published instance of Harris’s insult to constitutionality and for Crossrail hole agenda, I published and pointed out that Harris was wrong and that he was behaving in violation of the constitutional duties that every ‘minister’ was under.... And I said that he was undermining the constitutional ‘integrity’ of the UK ‘legislative’ House of Lords...
ASSUMING in a significant way with capital letters that the “legislative’ House of Lords is worthy of being given the recognition of having any integrity whatever....
Going by the behaviour of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ Select Committee, integrity would be the last thing that the ‘House of Lords’ would deserve...
And that is why my advocacy - in DECEMBER 2007 AND JANUARY 2008 [AND ON OTHER DATES] of the theoretical cause of the House of Lords as a legislative part of an ethically OPERATING Parliament, was not followed up by the constitutional conduct by the Select Committee....
And Tom Harris’s remarks were not OPPOSED by anyone in the House of Lords. Or indeed, anyone in any p[art of the UK parliament
Or in the UK ‘mainstream’ UK media.
Or elsewhere...
Mainstream, semi-stream side-stream. On any stream.
What does that tell us about the state of democracy and the state and the quality of discourse about that state in the Uk today?
What quality when there is NO discourse!
[To be continued]
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