Parliament ignores voters on Brown coronation

When the Speaker of the House of Commons (Mr Martin, Labour MP) dismissed Tory leader David Cameron’s question as to whom would replace Blair as leader, he was effectively banging another nail in the coffin lid of British democracy. Given the “presidential” nature of Blair’s primacy, how can it still be acceptable for the party in question to chose the leader without consulting the population? We are lucky of course that Blair does not actually have presidential powers, however the focus on personalities is such that surely we, the people, should have some say in what happens next once Blair, finally, leaves office?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6106038.stm

 

Given the fact that Scottish MPs continue to vote on English affairs (ie the smoking ban), yet English MPs cannot vote on similar issues which affect Scotland (ie Parliament didn’t discuss Scottish Smoking ban), and with the potential for an almost exclusively Scottish executive with a Brown PM, where exactly does the power lie? English people seem to have little or no power over our own future.