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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:41 AM Sep 2020

Placing bets if anything of our constitution as we understand it will be left at the end of this...

Letter to The Times today



Employees have protections in the UK, they cannot be compelled to break the law by their employer. Especially when the employer is the state (and after the state has recognised that it is breaking the law). I suppose the only question is are there enough centrist grandees with the courage to stand up and vote with Labour and the other parties to STOP this bill in its tracks? Because if not, not only will we lose any credibility we have left on the world stage, but we should start placing bets if anything of our constitution as we understand it will be left by the time we get to kick these law breakers out of office...

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Placing bets if anything of our constitution as we understand it will be left at the end of this... (Original Post) Soph0571 Sep 2020 OP
For those of us not as hip or learned as Soph Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #1
When this is all over T_i_B Sep 2020 #2

T_i_B

(14,805 posts)
2. When this is all over
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 12:43 PM
Sep 2020

We will need to have a constitutional convention to overhaul the British Constitution.

Lack of checks and balances has resulted in the British Constitution being completely broken by bad Conservative politicians.

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