Comments on: British bill of rights? http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474 Current affairs for a progressive generation Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: ChrisC http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-86024 ChrisC Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:20:12 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-86024 "He’s also a conservative..." Do try to play the ball... “He’s also a conservative…”

Do try to play the ball…

]]> By: Gavin Whenman http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85999 Gavin Whenman Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:54:25 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85999 He's also a conservative (although he has written some good stuff on the royal prerogative). He’s also a conservative (although he has written some good stuff on the royal prerogative).

]]> By: ChrisC http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85993 ChrisC Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:41:10 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85993 Sorry to be boring, but the introduction of a constitution is not now (perhaps it might have been 50 years ago) a simple matter. Constituional expert Prof Vernon Bogdanor explains why here (worth reading and very well written): http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=534 Sorry to be boring, but the introduction of a constitution is not now (perhaps it might have been 50 years ago) a simple matter.

Constituional expert Prof Vernon Bogdanor explains why here (worth reading and very well written):

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=534

]]> By: Gavin Whenman http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85988 Gavin Whenman Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:08:36 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85988 "Introduce a codified constitution instead of all this assortment of documents and bills." Yes, but then our great British constitution would lose its vital flexibility, which has seen us through 1000 glorious years of parliamentary democracy ... blah, blah... won't give up powers to Brussels ... taking away our Sundays... what happened to the good old days? “Introduce a codified constitution instead of all this assortment of documents and bills.”

Yes, but then our great British constitution would lose its vital flexibility, which has seen us through 1000 glorious years of parliamentary democracy … blah, blah… won’t give up powers to Brussels … taking away our Sundays… what happened to the good old days?

]]> By: sonia http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85972 sonia Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:52 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1474#comment-85972 you tell 'em sunny. you tell ‘em sunny.

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