We have an overpowerful executive. We don’t have sufficient scrutiny of legislative proposals.
So Richard Reeves suggests we should move to a unicameral system.
Genius, absolute friggin’ genius.
Please, somebody shoot either me or him.
Richard Reeves
April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Politics
4 responses so far ↓
1 Richardr // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:48 am
Of course by far the worst legislation we have is the finance legislation - this week shows how few MPs understood what they voted for last year - strangely enough it is finance legislatio that the Lords can’t reject
2 Matthew // Apr 24, 2008 at 5:32 pm
It doesn’t necessarily follow that a unicameral system provides less oversight. One could say the same about having fewer MPS - ‘we don’t have enough oversight and now he wants fewer MPs’, but I think about the best thing for parliamentary scrutiny would be to have say just 200 MPs.
3 Andrew McG // Apr 24, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Unicameralism sounds good to me.
(I trust he is talking about getting rid of the Commons).
4 Kit // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:10 am
Reminds me of the story of George Washington and Jefferson drinking tea.
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