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Katyia7 November 2012 12:18AM

A ballot is the nearest a secular society gets to a sacred ritual, the voting booth its altar

I noticed this theme elsewhere on cif today - - - taking the piss out of democracy - - -

Boris Johnson, mayor of London. Johnson has been a poor so-called "commissioner", leaving Britain's most flatulent gendarmerie inefficient and unreformed
he is a poor commissioner in what way ? surely of all the ignoranuses at the top he's a little more accessible and um human - - -

there is a shrill atmosphere in here of stifled stuffy anger needing to be taken out of its mothballed box - - -

Why should this one service have direct democracy rammed down the public throat and not the rest?

woaahhh - - - look at that spectacular swipe at democracy - - -

No Tory to whom I have put this question can answer it. They mutter about David Cameron's localism being two committees short of a council, nothing joined up, no coherence

groan not the Baby Jane/ Nancy thing again - - -

Then we had the much-vaunted NHS foundation elections, initiated by Alan Milburn in 2002, under his patronising "earned autonomy"

informative link there - - -

They are de facto private associations, not necessarily the worse for that, but hardly accountable democracy

ok but your point is what to say that autonomy should not be earned - - -

Their vigour contrasts with Cameron's "big society", the operational word being big, and therefore empty of meaning

most institutions boast vigorous democratic associations with little equalling meaningful what is meaningful about this vicarious crochet - - -

The same applies with the police. The people of England and Wales cannot know the character or competence of the candidates

so are you saying we should have the commissioners or not - - -

If it must have politics, let it be local. This argument reflects a strange political psychosis in Britain, a mistrust of the mechanisms of democracy

this article is bloated with contraband big fat generalisations - - -

I have no trouble with ramming politics down people's throats, in "forcing the people to be free", including making the vote as compulsory as jury service

woahh breathtaking watch that raging bull cut to the chase - - -

It is right that they be brought closer to their frontline clients, operating priorities and all

frontline clients - - - this is not written by Simon Jenkins it is written by a pissed up burk of an mp - - -

Most grownup democracies regard such leadership as most accountable where it is embodied in one person, rather than expressed through the cabalism of party groups and shifting coalitions

what - - - this is an analogous article written by some totalitarian control freak its trying to promote some other peer support cheap cost cutting exercise scoring points in my job exploiting my clients and their footage was been dub step posthumous mental agenda - - -
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Temulkar7 November 2012 12:15AM

Response to OrangeHerald, 7 November 2012 12:06AM

We do not have a constitution, we have a series of mutable unwritten conventions.

Sigh simply no point in talking to you. your previous post makes reference to our constitution which you now claim doesnt exist. That sort of doublethink is either stupidity or entrenched ignorance.
The 1958 Act was a direct response to the problems caused by the 1925 Act caused by Lloyd George selling peerages, I did not say he sold life peerages now did I? That is an example of how the constitution whose existence you deny works.
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