02 April 2006

Only a constitution can save us from this abuse of power

Recent events have convinced me that this may be the plain truth...
... the time has come to recognise that this mystical obscurity [of the British constitution] is incapable of protecting us from a determined authoritarian government like this one. We need a written code which entrenches rights and the rule of law, for now and future generations, a code which may never be altered or distorted by ambitious men in the pursuit of power rather than the good of the people; that this is the urgent concern of all democrats, no matter what party they support.

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