The issue which everybody feared is now proven beyond doubt. Malfunctioning software in a safety system proved catastrophic, wresting control of the plane from the pilots and crashing the otherwise normally functioning aircraft. This happened twice. The entire fleet of 737 Max is grounded. Boeing expect all to be airborne again in weeks following a […]
The answer is Yes. But not beyond repair. The Tory and Labour front benches now have to give up party politics and stem the rising waters of an emergency engulfing the very stability of the United Kingdom. Neither leads a united party. May leads little more than half a party, and only for the moment. […]
If the Democrats choose Joe biden to beat Trump in 2020, they will lose. He has many qualities. He is very experienced, well liked, steady and level headed, already a proven statesman and he understands how the world works. Correction. How the world used to work. That is the problem. It is a bigger problem […]
She had become a byword for disaster. Wherever she went defeat was her handmaiden. Then suddenly out of nowhere she corralled her dog fight cabinet for eight solid hours, having seized their phones, so that they were cut off from leaking to the outside world or being briefed by their many factions. First they were […]
This blog has no time for the DUP which has brought down power sharing in Northern Ireland and is now making organised government in the UK impossible. It is a Leave party, but Northern Ireland voted Remain. It is against the Backstop but the majority in NI favour it. It claims to put the Union […]
The nation, indeed the world, looks on in disbelief as the hope that parliament having taken control, showed it could exercise it, passes in another string of Nos. This is because there is no spirit of compromise at one level and at another far too many members have no idea what they are doing or […]
So May lost for the third time, but not so big. Perhaps. But she still lost and although the Tory party governs it actually doesn’t. This is because about 100 of its own MPs routinely oppose it. Take those off the tally and May has fewer MPs behind her than Corbyn. So no wonder she […]
Well the answer cannot really be yes, because in the international definition of a constitution in a democracy we do not have one. We have a set of customs and practices based on precedent, or what has gone before. So if it worked last time we can do it again. Our problem today is that […]
In any other time since GB became a parliamentary democracy Yes. But in these tumultuous political times when the constitution is flexing and stretching in every direction, No. Not yet. But it is no longer governing as an executive. There are in the end two reasons for this. Forget about new acts and court rulings. […]
If May goes now she should resign only as prime minister and remain leader of the Tory party until the Brexit programme is decided and implemented. She can then resign as Tory leader in time for an election by party members to conclude at the party conference in the autumn. A caretaker PM should be […]