It may not be widely known in the outside world, but we’re having a bit of a political crisis here in the UK at present. Scandal. Corruption. Ineptitude. Confusion. You name it, we got it.
Our political masters have, finally, fouled their nest to a degree where it’s hard to see how they can get themselves, or us, out of it. According to some polls, 57% of us, possibly more, think that we need a general election to get out of it.
The remainder don’t know. Some of them don’t know there’s a problem at all.
We’ve had to dismiss the Speaker, first time in over 300 years. Some Members of Parliament have had to fall on their swords and more of them are looking for the same way out. A couple of Lords have been suspended from their House, would you believe.
I have some problem in thinking that a general election is going to sort things out. What we need is revolution. Perhaps not Revolution, and hopefully not Bloody Revolution. No, a nice efficient Spring Cleaning would suit us better, sweeping the dust and the cobwebs of our rather silly system into history where they belong.
There are some that feel we should carry out a rapid rethink and reorganisation of our political system, along the lines of the USA federal government. That could work. It’s not commonly known that the USA system exactly models ours except that the three Houses of the American government are elected for fixed terms, where the House of Representatives maps onto our House of Commons, and the Senate maps onto our House of Lords. The President and his Administration no longer map onto the Monarchy as they did originally, however, but rather more on to our Prime Minister and Cabinet. All we need do is extract the Prime and other Ministers from the House of Commons and set them up as a separate body, sack all the present incumbents, and hold a General Election to beat all General Elections and, bingo, bango, bongo, we have a new system, all squeaky clean.
We could even keep the Queen in her cosy constitutional haven, safe and isolated from the whole lot of them.
There’s only one problem in all that. A written Constitution. We don’t have one. We need one like we’ve never needed one before.
Any volunteer writers out there?
