tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post985951103673225430..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: British Political Machine Lumbers OnMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-80949171642427197042010-05-17T18:25:52.444-05:002010-05-17T18:25:52.444-05:00Very, very true. It is noteworthy that "refor...Very, very true. It is noteworthy that "reform" never seems to work does it? That may sound silly but consider how many times "reforms" have been carried out and yet, down the road, the cries for additional reforms always rises up. That is why I tend to detest dealing with the revolutionary types at all. It has happened over and over all around the world; you give them their way and they want more, you give them that and they demand still more with the revolutionary side always taking and the traditionalist side always giving. It has to stop! And so it may sometime soon simply because their destructive policies will bring down everyone.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-8060858392467141652010-05-17T16:39:26.044-05:002010-05-17T16:39:26.044-05:00i think thats the point. Politicians love Reform b...i think thats the point. Politicians love Reform because it gives them oersonally mroe power. They also love the Socualist vision of a United World as seen throuh the Romantic notions of 18th,19th and early 20th Century Philosophers, and even though this doesn't match the reality ever, still adhere to it.ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-93850190612718272010-05-15T16:26:30.361-05:002010-05-15T16:26:30.361-05:00I know many in the US tend to think America invent...I know many in the US tend to think America invented "checks and balances" but it was a basic framework inherited from Great Britain and actually existed in numerous (actually most) monarchial states in Europe going all the way back. It is terrible that today it is being forgotten. Few people seem to consider that everytime the monarch or the hereditary lords lose some power -that power has to go to somebody and it is going to the politician-class and even increasingly these days to Brussels.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-41284893690523040172010-05-14T21:06:47.104-05:002010-05-14T21:06:47.104-05:00I have said it once, and I'll say it again. Wh...I have said it once, and I'll say it again. When it comes to the Continent, it's been nothing more than a source of bother for Britain. Nothing has changed. They're better off out.<br /><br />I have also previously said that all of the "reforms" proposed do nothing whatsoever to rectify the horrific concentration of power in the hands of the House of Commons. The Commons can be the dominant House, but it needs to have checks against it, lest it be tempted to corruption and tyranny (and if you doubt that the British politician is tempted, just think that they've made treason [i]legal[/i], and the little matter of the expenses scandal as well). A Senate wouldn't change anything. It's a matter of the powers of the Upper House, not its name or selection method.<br /><br />And I've also heard the spectre of fixed terms come up. I shudder at the thought.<br /><br />Britain is a mess, and everyone who wants to "fix" it wants to take apart what works, which is frankly not helping.<br /><br />Then again, if they get rid of the hereditary Lords, the a new Lords could be constituted by the monarch and the people when these people finally get chased onto the Continent they'd rather belong to.<br /><br />And only too right on history, and the justifiable pride the British can take in it and the contempt of the elites for that pride (a contempt that is not limited to the UK, I am sad to say).<br /><br />And if I may take from Gough Whitlam (oh how I love to take the words of the Left and use them to smash them!), well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Prime Minister.Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.com