Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage in political intrigue, sex, money laundering and murder, pursued by an Irish investigative journalist and his girlfriend, the daughter of a cabinet minister found dead in a hotel room after bondage sex.

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Many feel the fact that you can amend and develop the UK constitution simply by precedence or whim is a plus. The fact that the constitution is the property of government and not of the people, who do not have to be consulted about changes, is far from democratic. In fact it is closer to dictatorship than democracy and is kept that way by a political class which is establishment based and keener on its own survival than the welfare of the people it purports to serve.

It is therefore only fitting that every now and again it backfires and scuppers a government’s intentions. This is what has just happened. The smarting Tories complain that it is because they have no majority in the Lords. By most modern standards of democracy they do not have one in the Commons either. They have a majority of twelve on 37% of the votes cast and 24% of the registered electorate. Nowhere else in Europe would this be tolerated. Maybe that is why a good number of them want to leave.