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Gordon Brown: His First McDonnellite Policy
Luke Akehurst hopes that this Guardian story is true. And so do I. This is McDonnellite. Making the Lords 100% elected, with some form of PR.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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7 comments:
Not that you're a McDonnellite.
McDonnellism is so yesterday.
We're all Cruddonistas now.
McDonnellite? Just Googled 283 pages of john4leader.org.uk and there's no mention of Lords Reform (only eleven pages mention the lords at all). I didn't think he was bothered.
I read somewhere that he had changed his mind on ABOLISHING the upper house, BOUGHT IN to a bi-cameral system, and we KNOW he is against sleaze and patronage.
Don't have the patience to google links for those caps. But I know they're out there.
Join me in celebrating the first of many victories for the McDonnell machine. Working in mysterious ways its wonders to perform.
Miles: Have you given up on McDonnell for Deputy ... so soon? Cruddonista? No passaran!
I suspect everyone is against sleaze, but some weak soles are corruptible. And I’d argue patronage institutionalises corruption.
Nevertheless, constitutional reform is one of New Labour’s great achievements. But, as with so very much, Blair was too quick to compromise and lacked the boldness to finish the job. Those on Labour’s left have not played a particularly significant role in this arena.
Brown has repeatedly called for a new constitutional settlement that makes the Lords accountable to the people, while retaining the primacy of the commons and what you report on here, sounds like his beginning to flesh that out into something meaningful. He’s already proposed that parliament take the power to declare war and has repeatedly talked of the need to balance power and limit the executive.
Meanwhile, it’s nice to know McDonnell’s bought into a bi-cameral system, but so what?
"So what" is probably fair enough. But I am nonetheless going to be spotting "McDonnellite" moves for at least a little while longer. Little things please little minds as they say.
The idea of Brown doing anything remotely "McDonnellite" is risible. Sorry.
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