Of Constitutions, the Quality of MPs & the Sanctity of Parliament
We have today, dear readers, even if I say so myself, a somewhat eclectic mix of rather diverse yet interrelated subjects … & yes I am currently at the happy end of a gentleman’s lunch Just sorry that The Englishman couldn’t make it – still he currently has matters porcine on his mind. So while we are on the subject of pigs, let us once more consider our politicians & dive straight into the trough.
The UK does not have a constitution – it has never needed one because historically our politicians, no matter what shade, have exercised their powers with restraint, ever mindful that their tenure was transitory. This principle has stood us in good stead for some considerable time & enjoyed the support of the populous. After all, we are the nation that took pride in its ability to politely form an orderly queue – woe betide the mullet bedecked boxhead that tries to barge past in the ski lift queue – this concern for both manners & others has stood us in good stead.
However, over the last 10 years or so, we have seen the wilful destruction of some of our most cherished institutions & the politicisation of organisations that have no right to party bias. The House of Lords, the Judiciary, the Church of England, the public schools, the holy institution of marriage & even our once magnificent constabulary are now no longer free from those that want to destroy our traditions & mutate government into some omnipresent Euro-Brother.
How can this be – well a lot of this is down to the quality of our elected legislature – yep, they do not make MPs like they used to. Traditionally you actually had to do something before any constituency party would consider selecting you & the electorate think about voting for you. Take a couple of our post war politicians … ‘Weggie’ Benn might have be a shocking commie (& when his time comes I truly hope that the necromancer’s personal blast furnace is being heated in preparation). Nevertheless, for all of his political failings & they are myriad, he is a man of genuine integrity, capable of making an erudite argument, no matter how misguided. Dennis ‘Tax the Rich’ Healey – yes the Goat of Mendes trident awaits your buttocks for emasculating our armed forces & utterly tonk economic policy – but even he has respect for the institutions that he served.
These days, what do we have? A load of callow former student activists that have worked their way up the party ranks in the hope of being awarded a ‘safe seat’ for haranguing the most voters on the doorstep. Most of them have never done an honest days toil in their lives. They have no comprehension about what the real world is like, or how it or the country functions. Herein resides the real problem – once a load of the party faithful get elected, without a written constitution to define what they can & cannot do, before you can say, loss of sovereignty, most of the electorate have lost all interest & the country is being run by an evil coterie of narrow interest groups.
Never more was this apparent than last week when a handful of over grown public school boys blagged their way onto the floor of the House – what japes me thinks – well I would if it weren’t for the bleating of amoebic MPs whinging about the Parliament being ‘violated’. Eh? You could swear that Cromwell’s New Model Army had just gone through the chamber (again), collectively bending them over the speakers chair & turned them into bitches.
From where do the loudest whines come? – none other than Leader of the House, Peter ‘P’ Hain – the same useless nanger that during his student days revelled in digging up cricket squares … because he didn’t like the government of South Africa. Well I do not like a man in his position to have been responsible for breaking & entry, trespass & criminal damage; but then, I am a little older fashioned.
Anyway, there he was, coiffured & pouting, squealing like a stuck pig that the sanctity of parliament has been breeched – what utter tosh; if you cannot deal with a handful of polo players, god help us in the persecution of the War on Terror. Imagine if you will had Enoch Powell had been in Pain’s position – he’d have stopped them in their tracks with his wit, 3 nanoseconds before he went wind milling into them Powell was promoted Brigadier at the age of 32 (having risen from the ranks) & knew a thing or two about the generation of violence.
Instead, the same party apparatchiks that are bent on the destruction of our constitution & their own aggrandisement carp on about what might have happened if the invaders had been carrying satchel charges. Well the answer is that you would all be dead now & good riddance to the whole lot of you. Buildings can be rebuilt – we rebuilt the Palace of Westminster after the Boche took a pop at it in the last little unpleasantness – MPs well they can be replaced – we may be short of infantrymen but strangely we seem to have a surfeit of parliamentary candidates.
I never ceases to be amazed me that these people seem to be so worried about bricks, mortar & their own worthless skins, while they are so set on destroying so many of this countries institutions. If a few more of them had a slightly better understanding of the country, we might be better governed; but they don’t, so we won’t be. Shame!
Comments
Pedants Corner.
Blighty has a splendid constitution, however it does not exist in a single document. It is in part manifested by the Magna Carta, in part in the Declaration of Rights but even more in Common Law, convention and tradition.
The fact that it does not exist in one single explicit document merely makes it easier for the Nu Labour collective to variously ignore and dismantle it.
Bastards.
Posted by: Mark | September 22, 2004 3:04 PM
I think the country started going downhill when it became forbidden to stick traitors' heads onto pikes for public display...
Posted by: Kim du Toit | September 23, 2004 7:06 PM