The Bicameral Legislature

The Great Leader

Her Majesty's Government has this afternoon bowed to the inevitable and 'postponed' the vote to curtail parliamentary debate on its vaunted House of Lords reform. See House of Lords Vote Postponed. The truncated legislative process has been derailed by a satisfyingly bogus alliance of Conservative nutters and Labour reactionaries. This one really is a win/win for this jaundiced amateur political observer because I get to laugh at these unlikely allies and also to smirk at Nick Clegg's righteous indignation as his Baldrickian plan for a dictatorship of the mediocrities of the middle ground is thwarted. There is though an unlovely irony to all this political hot air being generated while our sovereignty seeps daily away to the gorgon that is Le Grand Projet. Meanwhile the Boy Cameron (is he dyeing his hair in homage to Berlusconi?) fiddles while the Treaty of Rome churns. Did you see what I did there?