No Shrinking Violet?

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Harriet Harman is the Leader of the House of Commons and seems to be doing her bit for the country while my friend ‘Bronco’ Brown is on his holidays.

Among other things she feels that men ‘cannot be left to run things on their own’. Even the former Deputy Prime Minister, ‘Jumbo’ Prescott, reacted to this and said she should ‘stop complaining and get campaigning’ after she suggested Labour should never again have a men-only leadership team.

Ms Harman has now announced that she is no ‘shrinking violet’. Yeah, right!
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Rushed And Piecemeal

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The Commons Justice Committee has said that the prime minister’s attempts to reform the constitution are being rushed through in a piecemeal way. They also said that elevating people to the Lords to serve as ministers may be damaging. The Committee recommended that major reforms, such as a written constitution or reform of the voting system, should be referred to a constitutional convention and be subject to a referendum.

This, remember, is a committee of MPs saying these things.

The public have been saying these things for some time, so the committee for once is in tune with public opinion. Including the criticism that a legally-binding code of conduct for MPs was dropped from the Parliamentary Standards Bill which received the Royal Assent last week.

Reform is certainly needed, but this government seems least likely to do it properly!
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