Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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One of the problems with the Tory party is that it has not taken on board that people are a lot more clued up than they were in the golden age of Thatcher and they have developed an instinct to see through the wily schemes of politicians, who now rank top of the list of untrustworthy citizens. The proposal to give English MPs a ‘veto’ on legislation affecting England only, is a good example.

The only way to deal with the question of English votes for English laws is to turn the House of Commons into an English parliament and replace the House of Lords with an elected UK Parliament with responsibility for the currency, defence, national security and other issues affecting the whole of the UK collectively. It would also act as a revising chamber for each of the national parliaments. All the countries making up the UK would then have their own parliaments do deal with devolved affairs and there would be a proper democratic assembly for policy affecting all of them together.

The Tories know that they have a natural majority in England (it is curtains for them if they don’t because they are hardly represented anywhere else) and they could therefore block anything a Labour led coalition, which might include a big clutch of Scot Nats, put before the House which affected England, which would be everything of importance. This would make the county almost ungovernable and lead to political instability unknown before. The Tory business community would not like that at all.

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When MPs vote  on this issue, this blog hopes that they will ignore opposition from the Church of England and the Catholics. Had the world listened to the the Christian church in the past it would still think the earth was flat and that the telescope was an evil instrument.

Organised religions based on faith can do good and on occasion they do a very great deal of it. Unfortunately the notion of faith demands adherence to certain verities which are often shown to be flawed by the advance of knowledge, science and culture. The mindless objection to women in the priesthood or becoming bishops is one such disgraceful example. Institutionalised paedophilia is on a somewhat different scale of abhorrence and disqualifies the Roman Catholic church from pronouncing on any moral issue for at least a generation. With forgiveness comes a price.

Meanwhile any scientific advance which frees future generations from a destructive genetic malfunction which causes disability, death and suffering is welcome to all civilised and compassionate thinkers. We must hope that includes the majority of MPs.