This was a most extraordinary day when the most significant political
fact was not the election results, but that Gordon Brown and the
Labour party - overtaken by the LibDems - refuse to acknowlledge
that the voters have told him to go. He hasn't noticed. He's bodged
a cabinet together it is true, but having spent all week leaking to
the press that Darling was for the chop because of his corruption,
he's been forced to keep him on to continue his disastrous policies.
We can't afford that.
So could The Queen step in? Gerald Warner thinks -'Yes'. Alan Sugar
joins Mandelson in the Lords. They used to buy their peerages in the
bad old days. Now all they have to do is help a failed prime
minister to wreck the country further.
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TELEGRAPH Blog 5.6.09
This circus must end: it is time for the Queen to dissolve Parliament
Posted By: Gerald Warner
You know how it is. You bend down to pick up a paper you have dropped
and when you look across the Cabinet table again, there's another
empty seat. How does Gordon Brown keep track of who's in and who's
out of his Cabinet? How do ministers themselves remember whether or
not they are currently in the Government?
Whitehall must be full of confused men and women, wandering around like lost souls trying to recall which department they should be
going into, theoretically to run it. And all the time, virtually
disregarded, local election results are pouring in, reporting the
annihilation of The Party We Love in local government. All those
YouTube parodies of the Führerbunker are becoming hopelessly
inaccurate: the Führer ran a comparatively tight ship up until the
end; Brown's Gotterdämmerung is completely chaotic.
What aggravates this shambles is the fact it is happening in the
depths of a recession, with people losing their jobs and houses. What
is this insanity doing to the markets? Who in the world now takes
this country seriously? Brown's lunatic spending has put us in hock
until 2030: how much more damage is he to be allowed to inflict on
Britain before he is stopped?
Nothing can be done about it, is the fashionable wail - it's that
looney, periwigged constitution of ours to blame. Nonsense. Red
herrings about superfluous constitutional reform, offered as a bare-
faced distraction from the Parliamentary expenses crisis, have been
allowed to disguise the fact that we have a robust and versatile
constitution perfectly well equipped to cope with a crisis such as this.
The Queen, in these exceptional circumstances, has the undoubted
right to dissolve Parliament and force a general election, for the
good of the country. There is precedent: in 1834, William IV
dismissed the Melbourne Whig ministry because it sought to appoint
ministers unacceptable to him and asked the Conservative Sir Robert
Peel to form a government; Peel almost immediately went to the country.
Some people thought the Parliamentary expenses scandal merited a
royal dissolution, but the case was not sufficiently made. Now,
however, the meltdown of Cabinet government - at the core of the
constitution - and election results confirming the electorate's
rejection of the Brown administration would justify such a use of the
royal prerogative. This would not be a controversial move such as,
historically, the choice of Lord Home as prime minister in preference
to Rab Butler, but a response to a national emergency.
Nobody could accuse the Queen of abusing the royal prerogative since
she would be using it purely to give a voice to her people. It would
be an assertion of democracy, not a departure from it.
Gordon Brown will never go voluntarily: it is time for Her Majesty to
intervene. This is precisely what the Monarchy is for.
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POLITICS HOME 5.6.09
1. Arise, Lord Sugar: Downing St confirms that Sugar will be ennobled
Downing St confirms to PoliticsHome that Alan Sugar will become a Lord
There has been some confusion over whether Alan Sugar was to become a
peer or not. Earlier today, Lord Mandelson referred to him as Lord
Sugar, but the official announcement from Downing Street made no
mention of the fact:
"I can confirm the appointment of Sir Alan Sugar as the Government's
Enterprise Champion," it said.
"Sir Alan will act as an adviser to small businesses and Government
and will work closely with Small Business Minister Shriti Vadera and
Trade and Investment Minister Mervyn Davis.
Sir Alan is expected to give advice on how to ensure small firms and
entrepreneurs make the most of the real help available from
Government and other organisations. He will champion the causes of
viable small companies with banks and help to ensure the voices of
small firms and entrepreneurs are heard by Government, suppliers and
other entities.
Areas he may look at include access to finance, prompt payment, how
to handle the downturn and how to start a new business. The post will
be unpaid." [Apart from the peerage, of course, and all the
attendance allowances that go with that -cs]
However a spokesman for the Prime Minister has confirmed to
PoliticsHome that Sir Alan "will become a peer subject to approval by
the appointments commission in the Lords."
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2.Cameron: I've seen riots more ordered than this reshuffle
SKY NEWS 17:52
. David Cameron MP, Leader of the Opposition
claiming today's reshuffle had been calm and ordered.
"I've seen more calm and ordered riots in this country," he said.
"Once again he is treating the British public like fools by telling
us this is a calm and ordered process"
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