State Opening
Very good to see The Independent and Nick Clegg now oppose this too. They are coming at it from a different angle but with the same conclusion. In the present circumstances this extravagant ceremony is a national embarrassment.
Little of the legislation announced will have time to get through before the election. The whole thing is a cynical abuse of power from which ordinary people are left unprotected by the weaknesses an inaccessibility of our Unwritten Constitution.