On a Written Constitution – One for the Muppets
May 28th, 2009 | 
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As this boring “MPs Expenses” saga goes through its death rattle, every idiot and their Mother is trotting out their pet ideas which are motivated by either personal interest or just plain ignorance, in the latter case the National Tooth Fairy would do them just as well, Boogie Woogie have a sixpence Click Clack !
If you are Nick Clegg and a Libdem, the fact that the Liberals lost their “Radical Party Crown” to the Labour Party a hundred years ago and haven’t managed to reclaim it back from them because of the Liberals own lack of imagination and drive, clearly needs Proportional Representation to make up for their past failures under our “first past the post system” – “Change the system to suit us and our total lack of competence is their cry…” Enchanting and I think not !
Matthew Norman
Writing for the Independent Matthew Norman is typical of the uneducated journalist jobsworths writing today for all his “insight” he may just as well be the loud-mouth idiot down the Pub and likely is like Simon Heffer. When it comes to constitutional changes of any kind, the old saying about “Marry in haste and repent at leisure” comes to mind. All changes should be very carefully considered, fully publicly debated and an assessment of impacts and “unexpected consequences” made before a broad consensus to proceed is arrived at.
An example of just how poor this article is can be deduced from the following extract in his own worms:
“The hot air that gusted over two pages of yesterday’s Independent by the main party leaders could have powered a Zeppelin from Parliament Square to New Zealand. They still don’t get it, do they? Not really. Even now, after seeing and hearing the evil at close quarters for years, they are content to speak vacuous waffle.”
He then goes on to write some stupendous waffle of his own but check it out for yourself:
A Written Constitution
In practical terms the demand for a written constitution is something that only people with absolutely no grasp of British history and current politics would demand and fail to see, that for the UK , it ceased to be a practical proposition hundreds of years ago and most certainly by the time of the Union between England and Scotland 300 years back, the “why” follows:
There are two examples that illustrate the point very well and the best place to start is with the American Constitution.
The American Constitution
It was written by people who were of British origins and indeed draws heavily on specific English Acts of Parliament and looks even further back Magna Carta. To this day the site of the signing of Magna Carta at Runnymede and has a monument paid for by the American Bar Assiciation.
It was the English speaking people of America that were the dominant force and the Red Indians, Negro Slaves and all others had to submit to this Constitution whether they liked it or not. The rights and wrongs of that and even in reality how sincerely it was upheld in the early years are not relevant except that the enshrined principles still shine bright to this day not just because it was “legalistic” but as much because white Christian English speaking people drew it up – now go figure.
The Basic Requirement
What is relevant for any written constitution to work as a framework for lawmaking and governance is that it must be based upon a set of overarching principles that all citizens would fight for and if necessary, die for. “These principles define us all in common cause and even to our own extinction as a people, not even as a nation…”
Such principles or circumstances do not exist within the UK because of the very diversity of the population which means that leaving aside religion, sexual gender/proclivities and the many varied groups of immigrants from Asia, the Indian Sub Continent, Africa and so on, just trying to create a common written constitution that Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England could agree upon this day, would be a total impossibility.
If you dumped Northern Ireland and Scotland, could you even create a balanced Constitution between England and Wales ? The answer is NO. The only way you could make it work is to destroy the ‘Union’ and starting with England where the tax and voting base lies, build an “English Constitution” and invite the others in Southall and Bradford to join or not, if not, deport them and crush them.
From there and based upon the same principles, “invite” the 3 Celtic Nations to join or not and in doing so, whilst paying “allegiance” to the basic principles they can negotiate their own minor exemptions and exceptions, sound familiar ?
The EU Constitution
For the doubters as to the truth of this, consider a recent example, the notorious EU Constitution which has already been put into effect despite the French and Dutch NO Votes at the time and which lives on today. After scrambling a few pages and re branding it as the Lisbon Treaty the EU is even taunting the voters of the Irish Republic that it is indeed already “in force” so, they should vote YES to join in what already exists. By these means the mainland Europeans demonstrate their lack of knowledge of history and the likely consequences a “Surrogate WW III” that starts in Europe because economically it no longer matters, the economic Circus left town for the Far East some time ago.
With 27 countries involved all it has come down to in the end is “Everything is controlled from the centre which is the Brussels Bureaucracy “. It was a logical conclusion to an unrealistic process because democracy was the problem so remove it at source.
And hence from there no Referendums except in Ireland who will be holding the same referendum for years and until they come up with the right answer that Brussels wants but truth to tell it matters not, Brussels has already moved on, this is no more than a “courtesy” for Irish people who still imagine they have a choice !
In Britain or Should that be England ?
In Britain it is no accident that our Constitution is written on numerous documents as in effect, “Declarations” that are intended to act as the reference material for Law Making and interpretation of those laws by our Courts. The sooner we leave the EU and repatriate our Legal processes, the sooner we can get back to common sense, a commodity often lacking in those countries with written constitutions.
A good example of how our arrangements actually can work rather well is the Act of Settlement which although I am a Catholic, I don’t want changed and totally agree with our new Arch Bishop when he said that a Catholic marrying into the Royal Family was not a matter of great interest and besides which that Act embodied much that defined England and the English. I would go further and say at no time do I want to see the Church of England disestablished because as you peel back these layers you realise that all these things represent “done deals where matters that were explosive at the time have been settled by common agreement.”
We are an evolutionary not a revolutionary nation and whilst is may appeal to Matthew Norman and Click Clack Clegg to be the “Hannah s with the banners astride the barricades” it is not our British way of doing things. The last time someone got radical, a King lost his head, the Lord Protector wanted to build a new dynasty based upon his own children, a really true revolutionary here – NOT and it led to the Restoration of the Monarch.
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If you have the opportunity to visit the EU “Parliament” in Brussels you begin to realise how differently everything is viewed from there and why this constitution is needed so that the EU can be the power block that it wants to be.
Only as a large power block can it influence Climate change, be a global force for peace, establish an alternative global currency to the dollar etc etc.
There is so little understanding that forcing differing nation states together under one unaccountable government and removing their sovereignty to achieve this, has never worked, will never work and has always lead to resentment, war or some other disasterous end.
There is so little understanding that the US Constitution brought together people who were in the main of the same english background who were already living in like minded states, brought together by the common threat and war with a Monarch in a distant land.