Saturday 1 January 2022

Some Thoughts on Constitutional Reforms

This is going to be bitty because my circumstances prevent me from writing anything coherent in one or a few sittings.  I haven't been able to write anything as a sustained effort for some time.  I'll add to it periodically and then edit it when I feel it is worth doing so. This is a work in progress.  I jot down links and ideas here, which I will expand on and refine.

I've covered some of this before, some years ago.  I feel that it is worth restating.  The general intention is to reshape the present constitutional arrangements so that our descendants never find themselves in the mess we are in rather than to advance policy ideas, rather than to make policy suggestions.

Make all MPs accountable wholly and solely to their constituents.

Abolish the whip system.  

MPs to be paid and supported by their constituencies.

Support means provision of offices and staff, payment of all expenses. provision of a home in the constituency, where the MP does not already own one.  Ideally MPs would be natives of the constituency with roots there.  

Everything an MP needs to do his job should be provided by the constituency.  It should be an extremely serious criminal offence to circumvent the 'procurement process'.

Constituencies managed by the equivalent of a watch committee.

This is 'do-able'.  Watch Committees to be elected, eligibility restricted to voters with no criminal record.

End unqualified universal adult suffrage.  It cannot be right to allow anyone who is supported from the public purse to vote on matters of financial policy.  Restriction of the franchise to nett tax payers only.  No one paid from the public purse would be allowed to vote.

No one with no understanding of the constitution or the economy can be allowed to vote.

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Separation of Powers - this is not a new idea, the brainchild of the geniuses behind the 'Harrogate Agenda'; it is a provision of the Act of Settlement of 1701, which needs to be revived and enforced.

No member of parliament should be serving as a minister or as speaker.

No lawyers to be allowed to sit in parliament or serve in the government.

No religious officials of any faith.

There is a case to be made and considered for allowing foreigners who are long-term residents and nett tax payers to have a limited say in how those taxes are spent.

Function of The Crown

A lot of people seem incapable of understanding that it is not necessary to retain the monarchy to maintain The Crown.  The Crown can exist as a source of loyalty just as effectively as a flag or a written constitution.  The Crown can be an abstraction that governs an individual's conduct and loyalties.


Treason

Treason - I cannot see how individuals who do not take money from the crown and have not sworn an oath of allegiance to the country can be guilty of treason.

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The world seems to be run by megalomaniacal psychopaths with a lust for money and control.  The 'U'K is certainly not being run for the benefit of its indigenous people.  Reform is now long overdue and although, at present, practically impossible may be possible for those who survive the BIG PHARMA / NWO holocaust that I am convinced is coming. I've held certain opinions for years, decades, which have been formed and reformed and revised over those decades. The seemingly inexorable growth of a global fascist tyrrany has confirmed them. I was not at all surprised by the government's response to what I knew from the start was an entirely fictitious health crisis and it cannot but be significant that BIG BLUBBER announced the recruitment of an additional twenty seven thousand police officers shortly after winning the last general election.  An absolute sine qua non for the reform process is the complete exclusion of any and all serving and former police officers from it.  In this context 'The Police' are the poachers and we do not want them telling us how we should prevent poaching.

Here are some thoughts, in no particular order, for reform. 

The Police

My views on the police have developed over fifty years, since my first encounters with them as a child who was not in any rational sense a law breaker.  I found early on that if I was tempted to share my parents' rosy view of our gallant boys in blue I would quickly be disabused of the delusion I was labouring under.  Even in the 1960s I was aware that the Dixon of Dock Green picture beloved of tabloid newspaper editors and Tory politicians was total fiction.  Police officers were, then as now, brainless cowardly bullies, at home imposing their authority on children and old ladies but terrified of anyone able to hurt them.  Things have only deteriorated since then.  Who, other than a police officer, would dispute that the police are effectively out of control, being now little more than a nuisance to the generally law-abiding at best and a real risk to liberty, limb and life at worst? The Police are now of lower calibre than at any time since before the second world war; they are poorly educated, unfit, anti-social and seemingly resentful of ordinary members of the public who try to go about their daily lives in increasingly difficult circumstances rendered unnecessarily more difficult by those they pay to protect them. Most of us would like to hold them in high regard, however, their unpleasantly aggressive attitude and unnecessarily obnoxious behaviour towards us makes that impossible and since we pay them to serve us it isn't us who have to change. 

The problems

Areas to address: 
Low calibre of those recruited. 
Nature of training. 
Function of constabulary. 
Powers of chief constables. 

This video offers some idea of some of the police reforms necessary:

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Separation of detective branch from constabulary.

'The Police'  have an abysmally low clear up rate and that must be due, in some measure, to the low calibre of police officers, in terms of character as well as intellect and education.  The requirements must be stricter.    It seems desirable to separate the detective branch from the constabulary.  Entry requirements must be far higher than for the constabulary and there should be no possibility for anyone serving or having served in the constabulary to transfer to the detective branch.  At the very least three good A-Levels and a decent degree in a sensible subject should be required.

Oversight and control.

The Courts

Citizenship and Nationality

What do British and English mean?

Allowing immigrants and their descendants to participate in the constitutional life of the nation is national suicide.  

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