>If the Conservative Party is really interested in drawing a distinction with Putin, it should consider its own actions. Democracy means holding power to account and that necessitates following democratic norms. The worst way to showcase Britain’s values is to grant its leaders freedom from moral and political consequences. The only thing that might really give Putin ‘comfort’, is showing him that our country, too, considers democracy a sham.
PM of the UK refusing to resign because they have so little regard for convention and the law is every despot’s wet dream.
“Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document. Thus, it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched.”
Not much is threatened then given we never got round to actually writing out a proper constitution…
Oh, and BoJo, please do piss off now.
The what?
Oh, that thing we pretend to have using the “we have a constitution, it is just unwritten convention” cope because we are too embarrassed to admit when other countries (particularly America) have done something better than us.
As a person whose parents are not native brits but I was brought up and raised in England with a lot of ties back home, the general census amongst the community is hey British politician will screw up at least they hold their hands up and they resign! So by Boris and the Tory’s acting like this they don’t even know how their tannishing such a reputable reputation
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>If the Conservative Party is really interested in drawing a distinction with Putin, it should consider its own actions. Democracy means holding power to account and that necessitates following democratic norms. The worst way to showcase Britain’s values is to grant its leaders freedom from moral and political consequences. The only thing that might really give Putin ‘comfort’, is showing him that our country, too, considers democracy a sham.
PM of the UK refusing to resign because they have so little regard for convention and the law is every despot’s wet dream.
“Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document. Thus, it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched.”
Not much is threatened then given we never got round to actually writing out a proper constitution…
Oh, and BoJo, please do piss off now.
The what?
Oh, that thing we pretend to have using the “we have a constitution, it is just unwritten convention” cope because we are too embarrassed to admit when other countries (particularly America) have done something better than us.
As a person whose parents are not native brits but I was brought up and raised in England with a lot of ties back home, the general census amongst the community is hey British politician will screw up at least they hold their hands up and they resign! So by Boris and the Tory’s acting like this they don’t even know how their tannishing such a reputable reputation