Notices by d a t green (davidallengreen@mastodon.green), page 2

A grumpy post.

When a commenters ays you have "ignored" a widely read/posted article.

No, it has not been ignored, I have decided not to include it. It has been considered, but omitted.

Grump, grump.

Reform Party spokesperson assures us all their candidates actually exist:

That there is a Democrat president, but it is the Republicans who are celebrating this (remarkable) Supreme Court decision, tells you how safe Republicans feel from abuse of this immunity.

And how unsafe others should feel if and when the Republicans get the presidency.

REGISTER TO VOTE

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Beware the media-political complex

Politicians and the press keep promoting unworkable laws. It works to their mutual benefit—but is not in the public interest

New by me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/elections/general-election-2024/66687/beware-the-media-political-complex

@goatsarah

Liberalism is not so much about what powers people have, but what powers people are prevented from having.

NEW BY ME

The rise of political misuse of the law

How from Beergate to Angela Rayner’s tax affairs, politicians are using the police for electoral ends

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/law-and-government/66539/the-rise-of-political-misuse-of-the-law

Well.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/rwanda-flights-not-leave-before-general-election-rishi-sunak

RWANDA BILL

Just a reminder that it is not "unconstitutional" for House of Lords to delay a controversial Bill.

The Parliament Acts make this a feature of our constitution.

The House of Commons can be asked to think again in next parliamentary session. If passed again, then an Act.

In the current circumstances, a year's delay even gives the opportunity for the government to seek a mandate for the Rwanda Bill at the general election.

(By convention the Lords will not delay legislation which has such a mandate.)

A bullish PM press conference with attention-grabbing promises does not - strangely enough - change this constitutional position.

The Commons can keep going as long as it can this evening but Lords is not obliged to give way.

It may give way, but it is not obliged to do so.

The correct resolution to this problem would be a general election, where the government can seek a mandate for the delayed Bill.

(Ho, ho.)

Asserting we haven’t got a constitution because it is not written down is like saying your washing machine doesn’t exist because you haven’t got the manual

@BethanyBlack

What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?

@BethanyBlack

What about: what idiot is the source for this stupid point in a Wikipedia article?

The estimable @BethanyBlack is doing a smashing sequence of film reviews called #366films

Lovely mix of cultural/social history with the reviews.

@BethanyBlack

Am really enjoying this series Bethany, especially the mix of cultural/social history with each review. This should be turned into a book, of course.

@BethanyBlack

The George Best of times, the Conchita Wurst of times.

@BethanyBlack Done.

The Rwanda policy no longer has any connection with legal and policy reality.

Even if implemented it will make no difference.

It cannot be made lawful in a rush, let alone in an emergency.

The money being thrown at it, better spent on UK asylum system.

It is now a totem.

Half-expecting government backbenchers to demand that we leave the jurisdiction of the UK Supreme Court.

Result: UK Supreme Court holds that Rwanda policy is *unlawful*.

UK government has lost.