A Troubled Parliament?

The first impression of this new parliament is not one of a government honeymoon following the Tory victory, but of troubles piling up. There is increasing worry across party lines about growing inequality without anyone appearing to have a convincing answer; there is uncertainty about the negotiations with the EU; there is uncertainty about the Union and how it is going to work and what will happen about English votes; there is concern about the ultimate legality of  the proposed Bill of Rights, the sale of Social Housing to tenants and now it seems the changes to the government’s powers to, via the security services, snoop on private communications in the interests of national security which is being challenged in the courts. And not by some libertarian fruitcake either, but by two very highly respected M.Ps. Well now, what do we make of that?

And then there are those cuts about which the government will sooner or later have to come clean.