Discussion about this post

User's avatar
A C Harper's avatar

We are all living in Tony Blair World now, and he gifted us a Gordian Knot of judicial and bureaucratic conditions preventing any major political change. Part of the power of 'the Knot' is the understanding that it cannot be unpicked. Yet we have made some progress in unpicking the EU laws that still bind us - perhaps some hero will appear who can slice through the Gordian Knot?

Expand full comment
Adam Collyer's avatar

No, Sunak doesn't seem to recognise describing the issues in clear and accurate terms. In fact it is a long time since the Tories cared about anything other than somehow cobbling together another election win.

Of course parliament could pass a Bill removing Britain from the jurisdiction of the ECHR. (They won't, because parliament is full of careerist hacks and lobby fodder.) Removing us from the ECHR wouldn't end this fiasco, but it would be a truly great start.

It would need simply a manifesto commitment to do it, followed by the introduction of such a Bill. It wouldn't need any kind of clever master plan. But it would need a party to be elected that wasnt lined up with the Establishment soft left consensus. So that rules out both the Conservatives and Labour.

Expand full comment
26 more comments...

No posts