Lackeys wanted

Apropos my post yesterday about the Tories’ potential aping the Republican strategy of seeking to colonise the constitution, an unnamed minister was quoted in the Independent saying of the Speaker of the House of Commons: “You can’t have someone in that position getting up in the morning and deciding that he is going to do things differently and bend the rules as he wishes. When you have a rogue speaker, he is all-powerful. I think we need a shake-up of the rules and I think it’s something we need to look at after the election if we get a majority.”
 
The irony here is somewhat unintentional I suspect, but self-awareness is not a quality one would ascribe to many members of this government. Nevertheless, it is a pointer to the direction of travel should the Tories win a decent overall majority. Curb the power of a sovereign parliament—it’s all part and parcel of taking back control.
 
In the same article there’s a suggestion that somebody should take MPs to court for failing to deliver Brexit. I doubt that they would get very far if they were to do so. The Brexit referendum was only advisory, a fact which now seems to be entirely forgotten. Referendum and dummer.