Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Parliamentary sovereignty is indeed DEAD!

As this blog has long and repeatedly been maintaining Sovereignty is indivisible and does not now exist in Britain. An article on the topic may be read from eGovmonitor , linked here, it concludes as follows: The Lisbon Treaty debate has highlighted a gaping hole in the UK constitution. The Labour government tacitly accept that Parliamentary sovereignty is no longer a useful concept - that's why they lined up to vote down Bill Cash's amendment. The Conservatives know it too - they have been insisting for years now that EU treaties should be ratified by referendums. Yet it seems to suit both their purposes to pay lip service to the idea that our democracy is protected by a supremely powerful Parliament. It is time we shook them out of their complacency.

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